ing in "mother."

"My mother thinks me very slow,"

would do. No. 3 can make a fresh rhyme, and has a knotty word to
bring in, so will probably need a longer line.

"Messrs. Stebbings and Hubbard two stockbrokers were."

The fourth player has to compose a line, not necessarily containing
the same number of syllables as No. 3, but it must rhyme.

"We went to the orchard and found a large pear."

We will now finish the rhyme as each player might perform his part.

"I came to the city on Wednesday night."
"The dog was returned in a terrible plight."
"In the store-room or cupboard you're sure to find mice."

The guesser would probably find out this at once by the introduction
of the word "Hubbard," but you can, of course, select more difficult
lines (viz., those which give less clue to the nursery rhyme)
according to requirement.

WINTER PUZZLE, NO. 1.

In these Puzzles the idea we have propounded will be found carried
out with slight modification. In each four lines will be found hidden
the first two lines of various Nursery Rhymes. Thus, supposing the
lines already given were those we wished to conceal, the four-line
verse might run thus--

Messrs. Hutton and _Hubbard_ once _went to_ reside
In a house that was _old_, on _the_ hill;
In each room was a _cupboard_, a sight very rare,
And my _mother_ was constantly ill.

With this explanation our Competitors will, we think, have little
difficulty in finding out the following Puzzles. In sending in
Solutions it will only be necessary to write out the two first lines
of the Nursery Rhymes hidden in each four lines given below.

SENIOR DIVISION.

I.

If you ever go to Spain
It will rain, and rain again;
And you never will come back,
If you're left upon the rack.

II.

I sat upon a hod,
In my hand there was a clod,
And I threw it at a crow--
An old one I trow.

III.

I stand on the bridge, and the waters dance by,
For my lady I look o'er the lee;
I gaze down the stream, for by London at length
Is the solitude broken for me.

IV.

There lived a fair young woman
Whom an old man sought in vain,
It was under rocks by vale and hill
That she wandered on amain.

V.

How short the days are
Now October is here!
If you long for a song,
I'll sing one to cheer.

JUNIOR DIVISION.

I.

Jingle, jingle, Little Jack
Had a key put down his back;
Single, single, I decla