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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 18

COMPETITIONS CORNER.] . i TESTS FOR OUR READERS. In this corner we will give daily a problem for solution b our readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present the reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction. Solutions will be plven s»ven on each succeeding day. ROPE MYSTERY. THE DISSECTED BOARD. The King's jester . The following diagram ?how s how th° was confined to a dun- j H9S ™ J e3 " ere , J olned together so J <reon, sentenced to a complete draughtsboard Bv death. He tells I. tCThlnl of ti? b !^' k . lines J"°" will get story of his escape:-- rWUfffl j 1 u V PieCCS as thev w ere "My dungeon did . CU " Up b - V J " hnn y- ' m not lie beneath the —t ij-,* _ moat, but was in one _j. Epai of the most high parts J XL.y> pw-. timi gjsfj of the castle. So stout . JyßjJg 16516 was the door, and so j§§j 3%* secured withal, that I __ ?JIL escape that way w^s^MHHSiV * """'sr; «52S not to be found. By*fegg |g* §& hard work I did, after many days, £|g. move one of the barsiflgfej^_&f SJPi from the narrow win- Wifjtjx. vpSS dow, and was able jo f . jjg£y through the opening; j3K4Kk «_ 3-— fH r tlie courtyard below lIL, 91 [j great that it was cer- J 1 ' ' tain death to drop L 1 1 Idon in^hi find in the corner of the cell a rope that j'; iCJ bad been there left and lay hid in the great darkness. But this rope had nut length enough, and to drop in sat Hk from the end was nowise possible. Then ! «„ I did remember how the wise man from j \. v .•' . Ireland did lengthen the blanket that HF< was too short for him but cutting a yard Bp ' * '* \ off the bottom of the same and joining || €y' . ygya, J? it on to the top. So I made haste to .*■■■ divide the rope in half and to tie the two J', - ** parts thereof together again. It was pp _ v then full and did reach the eround. i **' i; ' ■ Tr*™—esZl and I went down in safetv. How' could MOSS GOLDLEAF TEAI / Write for Free Sample, P.O. Box 1372. I MII E§ «| —J/liS ■ ... . 72^