teenth is in bell, but not in ring;
My fourteenth is in scream, but not in sing.
My whole is a noted city of Europe.

GOLD ELSIE.

=BLANK WORD-SYNCOPATIONS.=

Fill the first blank, in each sentence, with a certain word; the
second, with a word taken out of the word chosen for the first blank;
and the third with the letters of that word which remain after filling
the second blank.

1. On the ---- we first played ----, and then we all began to
----. 2. While ---- on the wharf, we saw a vessel come into ----,
which made us ---- again. 3. The game of ---- I will ---- you
play, if you will show me the ---- to the fair.

CYRIL DEANE.

=CHARADE.=

My first embodies all despair;
My second fain my first would flee,
Yet, flying to my whole, full oft
Flies but to life-long misery.
Still Holy Writ doth plainly show;
My whole, though causing, cureth woe.

M. O'B D.

=TRANSPOSITIONS OF PROPER NAMES.=

1. At ----, Fla., may be obtained ---- ---- for washing purposes.
2. Are not the public ---- small in the State of ----?
3. In ---- you may not see ---- ---- ----, though you certainly
will see many in Pennsylvania.
4. Amid the mountains of ---- there is doubtless many a ---- ----.
5. Having occasion to visit the city of ----, to my surprise I ----
---- except a few worn-out ---- ----.
6. If you wish to find or to ---- ---- -trees, you need not go to----.
7. When in ---- City I saw an old ---- ----, which was quite a relic.
8. In the city of ---- the cooks surely know how to ---- ----.
9. ----, my brother, ---- the falsehood by giving it a flat ----.
10. My aunt ---- planted a rose-bush ---- ---- ---- allotted to
fruit trees.

W.

=SQUARE-WORD.=

1. Sour fruit. 2. Imaginary. 3. To immerse. 4. A large bird. 5.
Unconscious rest.

B.

=ADDITIONS.=

1. Add some liquor to a spirit, and make to fix on a stake. 2. Add
something belonging to animals to the animals themselves, and make a
lantern. 3. Add sharp to a girl's name, and make a kind of cloth. 4.
Add an era to a vegetable, and make a boy-servant. 5. Add a boy's name
to a cave, and make a foreign country. 6. Add anger to a serpent, and
make to long after.

CYRIL DEANE.

=LABYRINTH.=

[Illustration: Trace a way to the center of this labyrinth without
crossing a line.]

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN MAY NUMBER.

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