he Editor has much pleasure in informing his Readers that, in
response to repeated requests, there is now in preparation a new
"LITTLE FOLKS Painting Book," and that he is arranging for a Special
Competition in connection with it, open to Children of all Ages, in
which a large number of Prizes in Money, Books, and Medals will be
offered for the best Coloured copies of it. This book, which will be
called "The LITTLE FOLKS Proverb Painting Book," and contain 96 pages
of outline Illustrations and Verses, will be ready on the 25th of
November; and the full Regulations of the Competition, with the list
of the Prizes offered, will be printed in the January, 1885, Number
of LITTLE FOLKS.

Picture Wanting Words.

[Illustration]

A Guinea Book and an Officer's Medal of the LITTLE FOLKS Legion of
Honour will be given for the best Poem having special reference to
the Picture below. A smaller Book and an Officer's Medal will be
given, in addition, for the best Poem (on the same subject)
_relatively to the age of the Competitor_; so that no Competitor is
too young to try for this second Prize. The Poems must not exceed 24
lines in length, and must be certified as _strictly original_ by a
Minister, Teacher, Parent, or some other responsible person. All the
Competitors must be under the age of Sixteen years. The Poems must
reach the Editor by the 10th of November (the 15th of November in the
case of Competitors residing abroad). In addition to the Two Prizes
and Officers' Medals, some of the most deserving Competitors will be
included in a special List of Honour, and will be awarded Members'
Medals of the LITTLE FOLKS Legion of Honour. The Editor requests that
each envelope containing a Poem having reference to this Picture
should have the words "Picture Wanting Words" on the left-hand top
corner. (Competitors are referred to a notice respecting the Silver
Medal on page 115 of the last Volume.)

ANSWERS TO OUR LITTLE FOLKS' OWN PUZZLES (_p. 253_).

GEOGRAPHICAL ACROSTIC.--ZEALAND.

1. Z urich.
2. E bro.
3. A rno.
4. L isbon.
5. A lps.
6. N ile.
7. D anube.

MISSING LETTER PUZZLE.

"'Twas in the prime of summer-time,
An evening calm and cool,
And four-and-twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school:
There were some that ran and some that leapt,
Like troutlets in a pool."

SQUARE WORDS.

1. SCAR.
2. CAKE.
3. AKIN.
4. RENT.

1. CART. 2. ALOE. 3. RODE. 4. TEES.