PUZZLE COLUMN.
BURIED BOYS’ NAMES. 1. Where is the jam, Esther? 2. It is Robert I euvy most. 3. Fred gardens very well, much better than Ida. 4. Nero, Bertha, and Rose are going for a ride to-day. 5. He has no elegant ways.—Cousin Gipsy. puzzles. (1) When is a boat like a heap of snow ? (2) What 'bus holds the greatest number of people ? (3) Why is the letter ‘B’like fire?—Cousin Fergus. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. Answer to Cousin Ethel’s Riddle : Short. Answer to Cousin Lilia’s Transposition Puzzle : ETHEL VETO ABERDEEN N ANLING GOLF EAGLE LEAL IDOL NERO ESCHEW Evangeline- Longfellow. Answers to Cousin Amy’s Riddles: (1) Yes, when he has got a big hole in it. (2) Absence of body. (3) A drum. (4) One misses the train, and the other trains the misses. Answers to Cousin Alice’s riddles : (1) A step-father (step farther). (2) Bobby Burns and Robert Browning. (3) When they make twenty-two. Answers to Cousin Gypsy’s Buried Flowers : (1) Red. (2) Green. (3) Yellow. (4) White. (5) Brown.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XX, 16 November 1895, Page 631
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172PUZZLE COLUMN. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XX, 16 November 1895, Page 631
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