PUZZLES AND RIDDLES.
Hidden Places. In each of the following sentences the name of a place is .hidden. Guess what these names are. The water looks inviting enough for a bathe. How tired I am, Erica, dear. The cut was painful. Don't rob Ernest to pay Jim. Beheaded Word. Hush! hush! break not (he silence While I am hovering near; In sickness and in sorrow Ever a friend most dear. Yet just cut off my head, and now What arc you all about, That with such noise and bustlo You should strive to sweep me out. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S. Beheaded words:: Clock, lock, Ock (tributary of the Thames), C.K. (Charles Kingsley). MJssin gwords: Forest, soffter, foster. Word square:
How can you make a man fat?— Put him out in the rain and he will come in dripping.
What goes over the ground on Its head and is always on the ground?—A nail in a horse’s shoe.
Why do soldiers feel more tired on April 1 than on any other day?—Because they have just bad a March of 31 days.
What is it which is always invisible but never out off sight?—The letter
Why did the man call his rooster Robinson? —Because it Gru-soe.
* * $ e When is your nose like a vegetable? —When it’s a little reddish (radish).
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)
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