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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 31

The lines given below do not rhyme, because it is implied that the person writing them from memory has made a mistake in each line, and readers are invited to make the necessary correction's. The spaces are to be filled with a series of words, each of which differs from the one before it by one letter, making the last word quite unlike the first, and with the contrary meaning. By way of. a small complication, one of these words is disregarded, and solvers have to discover it and insert it at its proper place.

The signal bade him ■ ,no choice he had, Before a impatient he must wait, Till like a — ,' as soon as he was permitted, ■ He crossed the street upon his homeward journey. ,: The day was wet, the sun; never appeared, Black as a smear of 7 the'clouds above,

And — would come the night, and that would signify No star or appearing in the , heavens. But one' short word had checked him. If they desire To substitute, another not. less clear, . . . . . Having a few —:— letters than they take, ; It will be — that bids us march on. ' ■..;•'.