RIDDLEMEREE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 3 February 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

RIDDLEMEREE

This riddle was sent in by Nancy Phillips, Hororata. The answer is on page 4. My first is in man but not in boy. My second is in game but not in toy, My third is in rat but not in mouse. My fourth is in villa but not in house. My fifth is in ginger but not in spice. My sixth is in sago but not in rice. My seventh is in whistle but not in bell. My eighth is in glade and also in dell. My whole is a flower you all know well. The Pacific More than 400 years ago the Spanish adventurer. Balboa, crossed the isthmus of Central America and looked down the deep blue water of the mighty Pacific, whose size is greater than all the drv land in the world together. From north to south and east to west it stretches in wide curves, and its waters wash the shores of four great continents whose mountainous coasts drop steeply to the bed of the ocean, sometimes many miles beneath the surface. Here, on the sea-floor, there are deeplying valleys and great plains, and from their surface rise mighty mountains whose peaks, rearing up above the level of the water form scattered groups of islands so numerous that the number of them has not been reckoned. Mr R. J. G. Collins will be glad to answer readers’ questions about stamps. Those who wish to have personal replies must send stamped addressed envelopes. Readers who wish to have stamps valued should send those stamps by registered letter with an addressed envelope and stamps for return registration. Mr Collins cannot undertake to value stamps from descriptions. All questions should be sent to him care of “The Press Junior,” “The i£es§”- -Christchurch^.———