We have this month our usual stock of letters from our good natured
friends,――but we can only find room to notice them briefly. We are
particularly well supplied with puzzles――enough, indeed, to get our
brains, and those of our readers too, into a snarl――if we were to
publish them all. There seems to be a great love for these things, and
abundance of talent to produce them; why don’t somebody set up a
Magazine entirely devoted to them? It might be called “THE UNIVERSAL
PUZZLER,” _or the_ “_Puzzler Puzzled_, consisting of puzzles, original
and select, foreign and domestic, and embracing the most celebrated
puzzles of ancient and modern puzzlers――edited by Peter Puzzle, Esq.,
aided by all the little Puzzles!” If any one is disposed to start the
work, we give him the title gratis. But to our correspondence.
H. D. W――――r, of Fruit Hill, Rhode Island, guesses that the answer to
the riddle of our Quincy subscriber, is North America; and that of the
one that comes from Portsmouth, is R. Merry’s Museum. Master Walker is
right――as are several other correspondents, who send us the same
answer.
The letter of F. H. B. of Quincy, is received, as is that of E. D. H.,
Elizabeth B――――g, &c., &c. The following deserves insertion as it has
travelled so far.
_Athens, (Georgia) April 19th, 1844._
MR. MERRY:
DEAR SIR,――I have received your Museum, and I am perfectly
delighted with it. I am trying to get you more subscribers
in our town, and I know that when I show the late numbers to
some of the other little girls and boys, I shall have some
new subscribers for you. I take a great deal of interest in
your _puzzles_, and every time that your Museum has some of
them in it, I sit down and try to solve them. Sometimes I
succeed, and sometimes I do not. I write this to you because
I see that you say in your last, that you love to hear from
your little subscribers; and I am also encouraged to do so,
seeing that you published a letter from a subscriber in
Decatur, which is not very far from this place. I have found
the answer to the Enigma of Frederick H. B. of Quincy; and I
also send one of my own, which you will please publish if
you think it deserves it. All that I have now to add is,
that you are not forgotten in Georgia.
Your young friend,
A. C. C******.
HERE IS THE ANSWER TO FREDERICK’S ENIGMA.
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