The Riddler. NEW RIDDLES.

Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 23

The Riddler. NEW RIDDLES.

2404. Charadb.— By Jessie and Aleck," Pukerau"*— '" ""

While my second startled, frightened,— Magnified the dismal yell ;— Asthonoise grew more unearthly,— Sleep refused to longer stay. 1 blessed my first, oh yes.l bleßsed-hnn,— ln a fair unstinted-way.—Peaca - had fled, I seized a volume,— And. found ( my wholfl where e'er I'd look.— You may find them gentle tiddler, , —In » well-thumbed, gteksy book. ' "■ '" ■ '' '-• '■ 2405. Square Word.— By a W»kat!p Miner :- ' '^ • 1, thin ; 2, immediately ; 3, and 4, pjurta of % man. * 2406. Charadh.— ByAlexKidd.Wyndhum:^- . . 1, part of the human body; 2, a] kind' of kit, . Whole, deep.' , . I 2407. Tbassposhion.— By GW, Waltepektu:— <»> .My yad of file is lotams node, • ' .' Mykrow shiinebe'droppave; . " ; ...' Dan ynma.' orel me, tab yb onen . - •: Ma I ghoune bedelTO. 2408. Bniqma.— By J D Pyfe, Waikaift:— I murmur all the day, and yet I never wrfftp ;— l ll« in bed all day and yet I cannot Bleep;— l work both night and d»v, and never tired am I;—l'mI ;— l'm unlike the modern navvy, for I'm never dry.— l'll bear you on * my breast, and often I may' sigh ;— But not with pain .. or sickness, as I can never die;— And though not" blessed with feet, I run as fist as meg,— Arid A when '^ '. chance to fall, I cannot rise again.— My month la very. - large, bat very small my head ;— My mouth etectetb. much, but it is never fed.— l often tage with violence as on my way I go,— And he who'd try to. stop me, - I'd surely work him woe. " ' .i\ , 2409. Charade.— By Bella, Peninsula :— Go fetch my first and second it.— The night is dark and dreary,— The whistling wind la heard without,— Around the cor aera eerie. —And when you've nude my whole appear,— Down draw, the window blind!— - Shut out the darkness now 'and leave— Unpleasant thoughts behind. ' ' . 2410. ENiaifATiOAii:Lisr OP Birds.— By Eric [Joseph, Milburn:— . : , ,

1, reversed, a preposition, the food of An animal ; 2, angry, an account ; 8, evening, a preposition, a consonant, a liquor ; 4, an animal, a vowel, a preposition ; 5, a colour, a tool ; 6,. a pronoun, a prepoiitlon ; 7,' ft circle, a bird ; 8, a tool, a Scottish lake ; 9, » consonant, a verb, a consonant, a preposition ; 10, ft country in Europe. 2411. Square Word.- By Mab, Southland:— <

1, bran and water for cattle ; 2, a town on the Firth of Forth in Scotland ; 8, are useful animals ; 4 • minced meat. •

2112. Transposition.— By Two Plums, Ealhlku :—. A kearuq asw a routignc . Fo a kursesqua twin a seao Htat polvraedep retch ceshnt, Het kamr dsme yb reb sots. ' A lyf ponu hy t soon, ym aedr, Hte Jabeulnrn notd asy, 1 Eeth'lt rushb tl lot,' het iadm lperedi/ , 1 Is't renaer heat anth em.' , 2413. Numbbsbd Charade.— By Incognito, Gore '<—

My 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 are in age, peach, oak, pear, flg, dean, ell, eel, shall, wit, hot, toil, but not in year, nlum, flr, apple, currant, priest, inoh, trout, may, fun, Insect, work. Put together all these letter* and you will see the name of a famous authoress, whose style of composition a writer in the Boston Times described as having been very painstaking. Ha Said, ' She always endeavours to do her best. Some-? times she writes page upon page, corrects, prunes, polishes, and then destroying 1 every line, she begins to writo the whole afresh. -At other times she mty write for an entire day of about six hours, hardly making an erasure. One day she va%y write thr«o or four thousand words * another, four hundred.'