Labrador.

2. In Palermo. Novel. A hard substance. A passage. In Palermo.

SUSIE.

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No. 4.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

A gentle animal. One of the United States. A Scottish lake. A mark made
by a blow. A Norman name. A recluse. Answer--A city in Europe and a city
in the United States.

MILDRED.

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[The following puzzle is for the benefit of our young readers who are
studying French.]

No. 5.

FRENCH NUMERICAL CHARADE.

I am a French proverb composed of 28 letters.
My 18, 5, 27, 15, 10, 3, 24, 13 signifies endurance.
My 12, 25, 23 is a ruler.
My 21, 7, 19, 17, 27 is a measure.
My 14, 28, 9, 16, 8 is a fight.
My 11, 26, 1, 27, 20 is a pit.
My 6, 22, 13, 2 is an adjective.
My 9, 4, 24, 8, 16 is an educational institution.

UNCLE TOM.

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 43.

No. 1.

Cleopatra's Needle.

No. 2.

Josephus.

No. 3.

B O M B
O L I O
M I E N
B O N D

No. 4.

S no W
T erro R
O liv E
R epubli C
M on K
S hip S

Storms, Wrecks.

No. 5.

Chaucer.

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Favors are acknowledged from Ethel Frost, S. T. H., Grace A. C., Mary L.
Jones, C. T. Hamilton, Burton Wilson, Elvira Holder, St. Clair Thornton,
Lynn D., E. L. D., Elmer Wheeler, Daniel D. L., Stella M. B., May,
Hattie M., George Berkstresser, Etta D.

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Correct answers to puzzles are received from Ada B. Voute, Nellie Binney
and Harry Phillips, Annie D. Jones, Fannie E. Cruger, E. Eden, K. T. W.,
Gracie Kelley, G. Volckhausen, Frank T. Merry, Eddie A. Leet.

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The following poetic answer to "A Riddle in Rhyme" in YOUNG PEOPLE No.
39, page 568, has been received from a correspondent in Auburn, New
York:

From Anno Domini--for short A.D.--
Begins the count of the Christian year.
That Adam was fatherless all agree;
That he was a father is very clear.
That a dam is a mother who'll dispute?
Or that a son's his father's fruit?
And puzzle over it, little or much,
A dam gave Holland to the Dutch.

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THE MUSICAL ANECDOTE.

The Musical Anecdote given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 44 can be translated by
substituting for the musical signs the following words in the order
given:

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