St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 07, May 1878: Scribner's IllustratedVarious
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St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 07, May 1878: Scribner's Illustrated
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Children's literature -- Periodicals; Children's periodicals, American
1. Behead to strike, and leave what all must do. 2. Behead what
children like, and leave a man's nickname. 3. Behead two pronouns, and
leave two other pronouns. 4. Behead an article of furniture, and leave
capable. 5. Behead a color, and leave a writing material. 6. Behead
something belonging to flowers, and leave a coin. 7. Behead a part of
the head, and leave what comes from the clouds. 8. Behead another
color, and leave a kind of stove. 9. Behead a sport, and leave a girl's
name. 10. Behead a part of a ship, and leave a tree. 11. Behead a kind
of bird, and leave disturbance. 12. Behead an article of food, and
leave a kind of tree. 13. Behead a table utensil, and leave a bird. 14.
Behead to frighten, and leave anxiety. 15. Behead a toilet article, and
leave to crowd.
A.D.L. AND S.W.
EASY TRIPLE ACROSTIC.
The primals, read downward, name a bird; the centrals, an animal;
the finals, an insect.
1. Disentangling. 2. Echo. 3. A city in a Western State. 4. Can't
be worse.
ESOR.
FRAME PUZZLE.
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Make the frame of four words of eight letters each, so that the letter
A shall come at each of the four corners where the words intersect. The
words mean: Sweet-smelling, to make a scale, a fillet, an ecclesiastic.
BESSIE AND HER COUSIN.
HIDDEN FRENCH SENTENCE.
Find in the following sentence the French words with which the Emperor
Alexander of Russia once described St. Petersburg:
Give him a good anvil, let him deal sound blows on the irons for the
pier, repeated and strong, and the work will last.
B.
PICTORIAL ANAGRAM PROVERB PUZZLE.
[Illustration]
The answer is a proverb of eight words. Each numeral beneath the
pictures represents a letter in that word of the proverb which is
indicated by that numeral--5 showing that the letter it designates
belongs to the fifth word of the proverb, 3 to the third word, and so
on.
Find a word that describes each picture and contains as many letters as
there are numerals beneath the picture itself. This is the first
process. Then put down, some distance apart, the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, to correspond with the words of the proverb. Group beneath
figure 6 all the letters designated by the numeral 6 in the numbering
beneath the pictures. You will thus have in a group all the letters
contained by the sixth word of the proverb, and you will then have only
to transpose those letters in order to form the word itself. Follow the
same process of grouping and transposition in forming each of the
remaining words of the proverb. Of course, the transposition need not
be begun until all the letters have been set apart in their proper
groups.
S.R.
THREE EASY SQUARE-WORDS.
I.--1. A bard of fame.
2. From mines I came.
3. A fish's name.
II.--1. The mountain's fringe.
2. I make slaves cringe.
3. A ruddy tinge.
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