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Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 24

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4i. Coquin, Wyndham, writes :— ' 27o3 is defective: each word could be replaced by another equally ay good. 2696 pleases we greatly.

J C X, Waropa.— Your answers did not como to hand until Wednesday night, when the Kiddler page was printed.

Adonitis, Dunedin, writes :- No. 2700 (charade) seems to me vague and unsatidfactory ; No. 2708 is tho opposite. I must thank tho author of No. 2625 for his very clear explanation or illustration of the way in which 'a plug keej»B at bay.' In effect he says, ' If Adonitis will withdraw a plug from a full vessel, he will have ocular proof of tho way in which a plug keeps at bay.' Eithor his illustration or my eyes must bo cobwebby, for I am still without proof. 'To keep at bay' originally meant ' to keep barking,' as a *>ta# does when it turns on the dogs following it : the dogs are thus ' kept barking.' From this is derived the meaning, 'to ward on* an enemy,' and the word ' enemy' and its synonyms are ne>er aprjjied to inanimate objects, such as water. Thus it is plain that the author's explanation will not do. J C X, Warepa, writes :— No, 2680, last week, is in few (if any) geographies or atlases. 2681 could not be solved by the data, as if gave the final light as ' a vowel,' and the answer is ended with a consonant. 2683 ought fco have been mor<, fully explained. 2088 is stilt obscure, aud the meaniiig of the second light wants explanation.

I J D., Kaihiku.— You have misread the tovms of the charade. The meaning 1 'empty' was applied to I ' addle,' not saddle. You complain with some show l of rup.wn of the manner in which Iho name Allan \s I Spelt iv 268.3.

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