THE RIDDLER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1899, 26 June 1890, Page 31

THE RIDDLER.

New Riddles. 5485. Hidden Protbrb.— By Myrtle, Waitahunar— Lord Bonald brought a lily white doe. Stitch, stitch, etitoh, in poverty, hunger, 'and dirt. I trow t hey did not part iv scorn. This time there was no confusion. Yes ; it saves a world of trouble. There are only nine members. 5498. Double Bbhkadings.— By 9eo. B. 8. :— 1. To stretch, and leave to educate and to put down. 2. Tasteless, and leave a reokoning and a liquid. 3 To effuse, and leave a dose and not well. 4. Full, and leave to consume and near. 5. A place of authority, and leave a covering and a melody. 8. To beat, and leave an artifioe and a blow. 7. A bird, and leave an Irish author and above. 8. A garment, and leave a grain and in. 9. To gaze, and leave a weed and existing. 10. To content, and leave a contract and repoie. 11. A vessel and leave a girl and a stupid fellow. 12. A kind of dish, and leave recent and the goddess ofmisohief. 13. To reserve, and leave to ehorton a verb. 5197. Oharadk.— ByW.A.O. : — Whenever friends pay you a visit, You give to them my first. What It It P And so long as they may stay, You hope they'll be my next alway ; My whole you say when they depart ; 'Tis a good wish, when from the heart. 6198.- Six Similar Words.— By Oordest— First a species of umbrella, Be it black, or blue, or yellow ; And if were my second You'd be rid of half your nerves ; My third fights the unwonted, On my fourth fly men undaunted, And my fifth, to make a writer, Less esteemed often server. My sixth ie is a river; But, perhaps, you'll ask " Whenever Will this puazle end, I wonder ? " So I'll try to make a olose ; Three syllables each, concisely. Of which the first, preoisely, The same In every instance, As a starter always goes. 5199. Charade.— By Kate Parkin :— My whole ts a word of 10 letter*. My 1 236 fe to arrive : my 4. 9. 6 a wlttioism ;my 10, 8. 6,7 to hied. My whole is a word meaning a summary. 5500. Anagrams on Books.— By Eva Allan :— I. Fine swim, boys, sail's North, 3. He is Scotch first. 3. In vain I drag Paul, 4. In fear ; not dons. 5. Two little oades. 6. O ( da ship out they relics 1 7. O 1 laat despair 1 8. The law will round a natural spirit. 9. City cries are not words. 10 Our corn is bones. 11. No gloom in his room, Sol thinks. 12. Rosa streets rare. 13. But for the talk as he ate, bear to fact. 14 Oold pit, so is her youth. 15. The dark night hour content.