LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 19

LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE.

THE COMPLETED PARAGRAPH

Below appears the completed paragraph Which competitors had to make for last Week's competition. You will of course hotiour us hy flving us your company so far. Indeed If you wilf do us the favour to accompany us on hoard our vessel, we shall fndeavour to return in some slight measure the gracious hospitality that hits been vouchsafed, to myself and my •on. If you add to your favours by twisting us in the inarch —by showing us the easiest road and' defending us from the perils that may beset us, such M are known to you O Salaam —you may be assured that we shall show our gratitude in very tangible form. There ■re, as yon know, even in Morocco, evil Counsellors, men of violence, some, who Would even dare to lift their hands •gainst the Sultan himself. If there hi; any such in this village, which truly I nin loth to believe. T, advise you, as biother advises brother, to exhort them to mildness of demeanour.

WINNING RIDDLES. fFtrst rutr.v by Jon n Coles. fi". Paicc Avenue. Mount Albert, age lo.) V- Win was th«' whale that swallowed •Toriah like the milkman who was fined for dishonesty ? A. Because he took a g"eat profit out. tft tTie water. (Si'wiiirt entry by Margaret Shaw. 3(1. Shelly Boacli lCond. Heme Bay, age 14.) •v. When is a window like a star? A. When it is a sky light. (Third entry by Dorothy Brooke, 0.5.8., Old Lake Koad. Devonport, age 10.) 0 Ti'.liv is a postage stamp a raof.t unfortunate thi'ig? A. flor a use though it sticks to its duties to the letter it gets its face disHiurM, Its head punched, and a good (I'oiirtli entry by Joyce Hunter, Greenhitbe, Auckland, age IC.> 0- Why was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" not V" itten by a female hand? A. Beer.use it. was written by_ Mrs. Ilc.-chrv's tue (Beecher Stowe). A STRANGE SUM. (S 'lit by M. Moojsev. Ponoonby.) 01' iii!!i'.-<.' you know those litt'.e sums by wMi'li yen can find out a person's • find number of his house. Tell your j'iiim to put down the number of his lion-e. double it. add five, multiply rii-wer by .">O. add number of days in ;id<i hi-rage, subtract <515, then ask him the an•wcr. The two figures on the r •• bo the age, the others will i • :.-r.