The Old Trunk Decoration
For the month of May we will award a year’s subscription toYouthfor each of the best three original puzzles submitted to us before June 1st. The names of the successful competitors, together with the prize-winning puzzles, will be published in an early number of the magazine. Of the remaining puzzles, all of those which show merit will also appear in the succeeding issues. This offer is open to every one.
The correct answers for the April puzzles are given below:
(1) Deprive farewell of head and tail and leave expire; (2) the usual covering of the head, and leave atmosphere; (3) on fire, and leave whim; (4) distant, and leave a note in the musical scale; (5) collections of regulations, and leave song; (6) an image of false worship, and leave a verb of action; (7) employed for money, and leave anger; (8) free from obscurity, and leave meadow.
When the above words have been correctly guessed and then beheaded and abridged, their initials, when placed one above each other in the order given, will spell the name of a well-known garden flower.
—O. T. M.
1. a letter; 2. a bank; 3. women; 4. specimens; 5. a quarrel; 6. to discern; 7. a letter.
—Ruth.
Supply the objects described in the parentheses and read by sound:
If a great storm were (a body of water north-west of North America) down on the British Isles, do you suppose you could ring a (city in Ireland) and make the (body of water west of England) the (a watch manufacturing town of the United States) the city of (the bark of a kind of oak)?
—Sidney M.
The first use sparingly.The second treat kindly.The third hold as a sacred trust.The whole is a shy bird.—E. L. Barnes.
The first use sparingly.The second treat kindly.The third hold as a sacred trust.The whole is a shy bird.—E. L. Barnes.
The first use sparingly.The second treat kindly.The third hold as a sacred trust.The whole is a shy bird.—E. L. Barnes.
The first use sparingly.
The second treat kindly.
The third hold as a sacred trust.
The whole is a shy bird.
—E. L. Barnes.
In the following sentences there are eight flowers. Can you identify them?
Alyar rowed his best, but Fox, a listless oarsman on most occasions, won the race.
Can Nature be excelled on Easter day?
For the table of the Pope, onyx is brought from afar, but usually unpolished.
“Hannibal,” Samuel remarked, looking up from his book of prose, “was the world’s greatest general.”
I am composed of twenty-one letters.My 3-6-21-19-14-8-1 is sincere.My 12-17-7-18-20-5 is a mineral.My 9-2-3-10-4-17-11-1 is a bird.My 16-13-20-19-15 is to mingle.My whole is the name of a well-known song.—William Harris.
I am composed of twenty-one letters.My 3-6-21-19-14-8-1 is sincere.My 12-17-7-18-20-5 is a mineral.My 9-2-3-10-4-17-11-1 is a bird.My 16-13-20-19-15 is to mingle.My whole is the name of a well-known song.—William Harris.
I am composed of twenty-one letters.My 3-6-21-19-14-8-1 is sincere.My 12-17-7-18-20-5 is a mineral.My 9-2-3-10-4-17-11-1 is a bird.My 16-13-20-19-15 is to mingle.My whole is the name of a well-known song.—William Harris.
I am composed of twenty-one letters.
My 3-6-21-19-14-8-1 is sincere.
My 12-17-7-18-20-5 is a mineral.
My 9-2-3-10-4-17-11-1 is a bird.
My 16-13-20-19-15 is to mingle.
My whole is the name of a well-known song.
—William Harris.
I am the first, and one of seven,I live betwixt the seas and heaven:Look not below, for I am not there,My home is in the ancient air.Come to my second, behold how fairI am, how bright and debonair:A pleasant vision and a beauty,A thing of life and joy and duty;My youth is changed. I live alone,My views are crossed—my hopes are gone,My whole is sorrow, grief, and woe,My singing now is all heigh-ho.—Selected.
I am the first, and one of seven,I live betwixt the seas and heaven:Look not below, for I am not there,My home is in the ancient air.Come to my second, behold how fairI am, how bright and debonair:A pleasant vision and a beauty,A thing of life and joy and duty;My youth is changed. I live alone,My views are crossed—my hopes are gone,My whole is sorrow, grief, and woe,My singing now is all heigh-ho.—Selected.
I am the first, and one of seven,I live betwixt the seas and heaven:Look not below, for I am not there,My home is in the ancient air.Come to my second, behold how fairI am, how bright and debonair:A pleasant vision and a beauty,A thing of life and joy and duty;My youth is changed. I live alone,My views are crossed—my hopes are gone,My whole is sorrow, grief, and woe,My singing now is all heigh-ho.—Selected.
I am the first, and one of seven,
I live betwixt the seas and heaven:
Look not below, for I am not there,
My home is in the ancient air.
Come to my second, behold how fair
I am, how bright and debonair:
A pleasant vision and a beauty,
A thing of life and joy and duty;
My youth is changed. I live alone,
My views are crossed—my hopes are gone,
My whole is sorrow, grief, and woe,
My singing now is all heigh-ho.
—Selected.