Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 15 (Supplement)

Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

1. To "box the compaes" it i« necessary to name the 32 points (cardinal, half-cardinal, intermediate, and by) in order, beginning at N. and working round clockwise back to N.

2. A text iI is a material or fa-bric made by weaving. Cotton, woollen and linen fabrics are the important British textiles. (Latin: Textilis, woven.) 3. A pattern used for marking out wood or metal that liaa to be cut or bored. It saves time when a number of pieces have to be cut the same shape or size to begin by making a template and to use this for marking out all the the pieces, which will then agree. 4. Mother and son. 5. A study, i.e., a short solo instrumental piece developing some particular point in the technique as an exercise for the musician. 6. Although slang this originated from the ancient Greek custom of awarding

(Questions on serial story page)

a cake of roasted wheat and honey to the soldier who best kept awake during a night-watch. 7. (a) A dish of stewed fish of various kinds flavoured with garlic, herbs, red pepper, saffron, etc.; (b) Marseilles, France.

8. An equal, a companion. 9. A general sketch or outline of a subject; synopsis; epitome. 10. The blhnted or pointless "Sword of Mercy" borne- before the British Sovereign at the Coronation; also called Kdward the Confessor's Sword.

11. A game played on a chequer board with flat pieces, the object being to get five pieces into line. 12. Study at night; any literary composition, especially of a pedantic or laboured style. . 13. A low storey inserted between high storeys in a building; usually

between the ground floor and the first storey. (From the Latin medius, middle.)

14. "It is magnificent, but it is not war," was alleged by a French journalist to have been the comment made by one of the French generals at the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. 15. The North American Indians. 16. The phrase is old and implies that the two opponents will beat each other as with hammers and will be as cross as the two sections of a pair of tongs. 17. Dainty side dishes. 18. No. It draws water into its trunk and then squirts the water from its trunk into the open mouth. 19. "God be with you (ye)." 20. A flock of sheep, a herd of cattle, a pack of wolves, a sounder of swine, a pride of lions, a covey of partridges, a snive of duck, a gaggle of geese, a flock of starlings, a wisp of snipe, and a charm of goldfinches.