Who gave you that flower?
3. They live close by us.
4. She went in the train because it was raining.
5. The glass is not put in the frame yet.
6. All these houses belong to him.
7. You must not stay out so late again, Edith.
8. Are you not going for a walk?
9. You throw the ball too high, Louise.
10. We will flood the lawn when the stones have been swept away.

AMY FAGG.
(Aged 15.)
_Clarence Lodge, Canning Road, Croydon._

ANSWERS TO LITTLE FOLKS' OWN PUZZLES (_p. 189_).

MISSING LETTER PUZZLE.

"With fingers weary and worn, with eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, plying her needle and thread:
Stitch! stitch! stitch! in poverty, hunger, and dirt;
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, she sang the 'Song of
the Shirt.'"

DOUBLE MESOSTICH.--OBERON--PORTIA.

1. H OP e.

2. O BO e.

3. H ER d.

4. Ta RT an.

5. Qu OI ts.

6. Fi NA le.

RIDDLE-ME-REE.--TIGER.

SINGLE GEOGRAPHICAL ACROSTIC--CELEBES.

1. C hesterfield.

2. E rne.

3. L iffey.

4. E lba.

5. B lenheim.

6. E uphrates.

7. S hrewsbury.

HIDDEN PROVERBS.

1. "Strike while the iron is hot."

2. "Where there's a will, there's a way."

3. "Too many cooks spoil the broth."

BEHEADED WORDS.

1. Wheel, heel, eel.

2. Slate, late, ate.

3. Stale, tale, ale.

GEOGRAPHICAL PICTORIAL ACROSTIC.

ITALY--ASSAM.

I celand contains the volcano of Hecl A.

T unbridge Wells is remarkable for its spring S.

A thens, the capital of Morea, is famous on account of its Acropoli S.

L eghorn is situated 14 miles south of Pis A.

Y armouth is the chief seat of the herring fisheries in the kingdo M.

PRIZE PUZZLE COMPETITION.

SPECIAL HOME AND FOREIGN COMPETITION.

As announced last month, the Editor proposes to give those of his
Readers residing abroad an opportunity of competing for Prizes on
favourable terms with Subscribers in Great Britain. A list of the Prizes
is given below, and the Puzzles, together with additional particulars,
will be found in the September issue.

PRIZES.

Twenty prizes will be awarded for the best Solutions to the Puzzles
given _in the last number_ (_p. 190_); Ten to Competitors in the Senior
(for girls and boys between the ages of 14 and 16 _inclusive_), and Ten
to Competitors in the Junior Division (for those _under_ 14 years of
age).

The following will be th