THE RIDDLER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 7 April 1892, Page 35

THE RIDDLER.

New Riddles.

6128. Beheaded Words.— By Ohau :—

1, Behead a covering and leave a relation ; 2 a mask and leave a cooking utensil : 3, to repeat and leave to get ; 4, a small animal and leave a river ; 5, a fruit and leave a cooking stove ; 6, to hold tightly and leave a grating noise, behead again and I will bo a poisonous reptile ; 7, to hurt and leave part of the body; 8, brave and leave aged ; 9, a small vessel and leave a grain 10, an article of food and leave to study. 6129. Double Acrostic— By A. G. W. :—

Foundation words or uprights. Primals with our finals place Then in the combination trace Precocious urchins— such are many— Who strive to. turn an honest penny. Lights or cross words. 1. An Eastern potentate is here. 2. A river found in sunny Spain. 3. Cautious is this, as must appear. 4. And in the last a sage you 11 gain. 6130. Beheading.— Selected by Mignonette :—

My first is what ? I know not what, Yet still it has a name. It loves the empire of the night, And is of ancient fame. Without a head, that mighty part, I'm near five hundred strong ; And if you like take out my heart I still can skip along. 6131. Diagonal Square.— By C. S. :—

Blunders ; peculiar expressions : plague J scattered over the world : in high heaven Puffing Billy • Read me from left to right diagonally up, And I'm mysterious ; ah, there's the rub ; But read me down from left to right again When you can eat me without doubt or pain. 6132. Pi.— By Gehohusmp :— Oil. mustrept, don us het raw-oten, Oh, crovits racel het yaw : Het gkinths lilw drio ni lal ither depir, Ganol hte tessert ot-ady.

— Calmayua. 6133. Rhymless Quotation.— By J. B. Hoff

man :— O, what may man within him , Though angel on the outward . _— Shakespeare.