Boy
the rest of the sentence, spelt withexactly the same letters, was “over the garden wall!”
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“Catastrophe,” the title of the tragedy foreshadowed, can be recast into “A cat! stop her!” By similar process the words, “New parrot stand in a house,” become “He turns on a soda-water tap!”
Pet fight
The parrot’s ready resource and triumph is depicted here with striking effect.
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When the judge at a baby show said to the mother of the small boy whose thumb was in his mouth, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits,” the precocious child replied, as he removed his comforting hand, in a sentence spelt withexactly the same letters, “So to-day, sir, I suck my little thumb.”
Baby
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When the lady sitting at the back of this overloaded wagonette said to her husband, “This big load quite hinders his pull,” in her sympathy with the struggling horse,
Wagonette
he made this very practical reply, in a sentence spelt withexactly the same letters: “Do sit quiet, girl; I shall push behind!”
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When a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is striking!”
Biljarts player
an appropriate reply, spelt withexactly the same letters, would have been: “He plays without taking a rest, sir.”
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The two English words appropriate to thispicture—
Transformation
which have as their anagrams “Or not a man first,” and “O I love nuts!” areTransformation and Evolutions.
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This is a fancy portrait ofWilliam—
Joker
We decide by anagram whether this isWilliam or dear Jack, for these words, when recast, spell “I am Will, a card joker!”
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The word indicated by this picture in combination with the lines belowit—
Stout lady
Begin with the end of my first,And then you will find out the rest;For it all will appeal to your thirst,Or point to a ponderous guest.
Begin with the end of my first,And then you will find out the rest;For it all will appeal to your thirst,Or point to a ponderous guest.
Begin with the end of my first,And then you will find out the rest;For it all will appeal to your thirst,Or point to a ponderous guest.
isStout.
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The words of Jigger’s wife, when she said that he seemed to be in a “sad pet,” were true by anagram.
Biljarts player
His ball hugs the cushion so closely as to be completelypasted.
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When, as they held on to the fractious cow, the farmer exclaimed, “See, we hold this cow’s horns and tail,”
Milking time
his foreman, using exactly the same letters in his sentence,said—
“She cannot toss, her wild head is low.”
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While the horse shown in this picture might be saying, if it could speak, “I’m a train’dstepper!”—
Trained stepper
the driver, from his point of view, might say, as he held him in check, “Spirit and a temper!” making use in his words ofexactly the same letters.
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When one onlooker, seeing the artist working with his feet,said—
“Why, now I see this fine artist has no hand!”
Artist
the other replied, using exactly the same letters,
“He draws in any fashion with his ten toes!”
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When her husband, showing this picture
Fishing
said to his wife, “This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” she, knowing that temptation in this form would fail, said, as she glanced at his illustration of their aims, in words spelt with exactly the sameletters:—
“And see, he will not rise at our bait!”
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The sturdy musician, who had said, “What shall I play?” to which some one replied, “Any strains of Beethoven, he charms all!” as this was not an acceptable suggestion, struck up a piece after his own heart.
Cello player
He said, as he struck the strings, in a sentence composed of exactly the same letters—“Nay, for this ’cello heaven sent a Brahms!”
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Here is the picture of a parsnip lying across a swede readjusted and reversed.
Adjusted vegetables
We gave as a clue theanagram—
“Here is our parsnip on swede.”
ANAGRAM
Wise and superior person he!
but this is now hardly needed to show who is thus represented in friendly caricature: (With apologies to G. B. S.)
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The letter puzzle is solvedthus—
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Within this square the word LEVEL runs in twelve different directions, being itself a palindrome.
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The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the key to this sum, isDo your best. If these letters are numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding figures are substituted for the letters, the sum works out as is shown in the seconddiagram—
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The twelve names of flowers and foliage that may be gathered within these borders, by moving in any direction one square at a time,
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are 18, 26, 32, 24,Rose; 25, 33, 34, 28, 35,Tulip; 35, 28, 27, 21,Pink; 31, 32, 25, 24, 18,Aster; and, in similar ways,Verbena;Salvia;Ivy;Lily;Lilac;Heliotrope;Fern; andBell.
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The solution of this little problem, set by Dr Puzzlewitz on his blackboard to test the powers of his young pupils—“What are the values of A and B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting B fromA?”—
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is that A = 51⁄3and B = 11⁄3.
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This is the diamondsquared:—
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in which the words read alike from top to bottom, and from left to right.
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This is the arrangement of the 32 letters in the 64cells—
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No A is in the same column, row, or diagonal with another A, no E with another E, no I with another I, and no O with another O.
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This is the anagram square, with the letters, which in the former diagram spelt the wordsvote,wove,prow,call,stew,news,core,nape, recast into fresh words which now read alike from top to bottom and from left to right of the square.
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The empty squares and diagonal setting are necessary for this particular puzzle, as the words would not form a word square if their letters were placed below one another in the usual way.
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The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the key to this sum, is—Add these up. If these letters are numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding figures are substituted for the numbers, the sum works out as is shown below.
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The four words, seek, slab, leek, moan, which were placed on the white squares when recast form the followingcombination:—
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These fresh words read alike from side to side, and zigzag from top to bottom.
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These are the four words, recast by anagram from afar, task, seat, leal, and which now form a perfect word square.
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The word square is recastthus—
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Its words are spelt with the same letters as the wordschess,greed,canes,rears,cheer, which formed the original square, but did not read alike from top to bottom, and from left to right, as these do.
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The five familiar proverbs hidden in this square of 169 letters are: A rolling stone gathers no moss. Too many cooks spoil the broth. A live dog is more to be feared than a dead lion. You cannot eat your cake and have it. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
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Coded French
If the shaded circles are cut out and the diagram is placed squarely over the jumbled letters, with the I., II., III., IV. in turn at the top left-hand corner, this sentence isdisclosed—
Le premier Supplément du Journal de la Jeunesse a été publié dans le Numéro du Dix-neuf Juin Mil huit cent soixante-quinze.
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This is the way to reconstruct Sam Loyd’s black pony—so that, while its legs and tail are strangely misplaced, they form the spirited outline of a white galloping horse.
Pony
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Here is the key to Sam Loyd’s ingeniouspuzzle—
Horses
which shows the jockeys and horses in full racing trim.
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This is the inevitable result of the boy’s attempt to annex with his mouth the sugar on thechair—
Falling boy
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The leap-frog puzzle is solved in nine hopsthus:—
Leap-frog
First jump from stool 2, then from 5, 3, 6, 7, 1, 3, and 6 in turn to the vacant stools.
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This diagram shows that the seven wheels, which spin so merrily when the paper is rotated in the hand, can be divided off into separate enclosures by only three straightlines—
Circles
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The diagram below shows how the market-gardener, keeping one-fourth of his square field for himself in the shape of a triangle, was able to divide the remainder so that each of his four sons had an equal portion of similarshape—
FDivided field
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Here is a drawing of the perfect Latincross—
Cross
The position of the two long pieces does not readily suggest itself to those who try to arrange the five on paper with a pencil.
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This diagram shows the effectual means taken by four rich men, whose houses were further afield, to exclude four poor men from all access to a central lake, that they might reserve the fishing for themselves.
Fishing pond
They built a high wall on the lines that are indicated which, while it left a way for each of them to the water, altogether shut it away from their poor neighbours.
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This is the square that can be formed with the ten pattern piecesgiven—
Square
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The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into nine parts by four straight cuts