THE RIDDLER.
New Biddies. 8437. Double Acrostic— Selected byThersites :-» Foundation Words or Uprights. 2. 1. Here to-day. 2. 3. Passed away. My central column linked to firßt and last Unites the living present a"nd dead past. Intermediate Anagram. O I YE MEN, GO RACE ! Till ye find the trace Of what is here suspended ; Foundations come in sight To guide your steps aright, For this is now intended. Lights or Cros3 Words. 1. Love and strawberries are first. 2. Shakespearian character rehearsed. 3. Fronting sunny southern sea. 4. This " thrust out" must surely be. 8433. Decapitation.— By Jennie Jay :— When whole I always larger grow j Behead, and now, if you're not I, Your life's in danger ; quickly go, Nurae yourself or doctor try. Again behead, and now I tell Breadth, depth; and height of land and fell. 8439. Chabade.— By Colonslie :— My first is 'an indentation ;my second nothing indicates ; my third may be entire, though full of holes ; aud my whole when used doth make ugly holes. 8410. Charadial Enigma.— BjrJH, M. B. :— When Hying last a country first No doubt 'tis very pleasant ' To have a serving man (or whole) To bring up goose and pheasant.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 40
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199THE RIDDLER. Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 40
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