Chapter XIII: Part II (3)

Nature _I_ love _in_ every land,
On burning plain, by wooded rill;
Where _Ind_ is girt by coral strand,
Or _Edin_ rears her castled hill.
Then _deign_ from me the tale to hear,
How, true to one _design_, the bee
Once _singled_ out keeps year by year
The _leadings_ by her instinct given,
Which teach her, wheresoe’er she roam,
In every clime beneath the heaven,
To build the same _six-angled_ home.

46

The missing words are _smite_, _times_, _emits_, _items_, and _mites_.

47

The missing words of the Farmyard puzzle are printed in italics:--

All his flock from _danger_ rough,
To the _garden_ ran apace,
Where their _gander_, old and tough,
_Ranged_, the guardian of his race.

48

Come, landlord, fill the flowing _pots_,
Until their _tops_ run over;
For in this _spot_ to-night I’ll _stop_,
To-morrow _post_ to Dover!

49

The four missing words are _silent_, _listen_, _enlist_, and _tinsel_, which are all spelt with the same letters.

50

Some men their _teams_ escorted on their way,
When “_Mates_ look here!” I heard a driver say:
“It _tames_ our pluck to toil like _steam_ all day,
When, wanting _meats_, we starve on wretched pay.”

51

WISDOM WHILE YOU WAIT

As a _general_ _gleaner_ of facts you’ll find
Our Encyclopædia _enlarge_ the mind.

52

The missing words are _nectar_, _Cretan_, _canter_, _trance_, _recant_.

53

_I Satan_ but for rebel act
Without _a stain_ should be;
But this _is at an_ end, in fact
None find _a saint_ in me.

54

“Oh for a _break_ in this vast solitude,
This endless rise and fall of _brake_ and moor!”
Soliloquised a _baker_ in sad mood,
As through the lonely hills the staff of life he bore.

55

THE SEA SERPENT

’Twas in _mid-ocean_ that we saw him play,
Like a _demoniac_ in his sports, and they
Amused us, as a good _comedian_ may.

56

Soup is _on table_ for a _notable_ divine,
Who with _no table_ is _not able_ to sit down and dine.

57

Sweet as the _rose_ and cruel as its thorn,
_Eros_ thy power is great, thy pity scorn.
Swift as the _roes_ that through the forest fly,
Deep as the _ores_ that deepest hidden lie,
Is thine own _sore_ to hapless mortals given,
Semblance of darkest hell or brightest heaven.

58

The missing words, dedicated to the Fresh Air Fund, read thus:--

GOOD _TIMES_ FOR CITY _MITES_

My pipe _emits_ for _me its_ charms, that yield
Pictures and _items_ of a children’s day.
Lest conscience _smite_ I _sit me_ down to say
My _mites_ shall send some City _mites_ afield.

59

He said “you _Cretan_,” when one lied,
He said “don’t _canter_,” when one hied,
His glass held _nectar_ at his side,
He can _recant_ what he denied.

60

Mr Snip, the _agnostic_, was _coasting_ a hill,
With a bag of new _coatings_ for stock;
When a runaway motor-car gave him a spill
Which scattered his doubts with the shock.

61

_Pales_ her fair cheek, and back o’er all
The _lapse_ of years _leaps_ memory.
Those wedding _peals_ to her recall
The _pleas_ he urged so tenderly.

62

Two burglars attempted to _rifle_ a house,
But the _filer_ was heard, though as still as a mouse.
When challenged at once he a _flier_ became,
But caught as a _lifer_ he finished his game.

63

The _licensed_ fool in olden days
Gave kings advice in jesting phrase;
He’s _silenced_ now: the modern throne
_Declines_ all follies but its own.

64

Days of _dearth_, and times of evil,
Starving girls with _thread_ do toil,
No man _dareth_ feast or revel,
Hushed is _hatred_ and turmoil.

65

Who _reineth_ in his pride and rage,
To _neither_ vice a prey,
May hope to reach a green old age,
And find _therein_ his stay.

66

This is the full text of Moore’s witty reply, when Limerick courted him as her member, and the “boys for fun’s sake” asked him to what party he belonged:--

“I’m of no party as a man,
But as a poet _am--a--tory_!”

67

Is England _Israel_? That this is so
A solemn _serial_ aspires to show.
By most ignored, the theme _is real_ to some,
Who gravely to the same conclusion come.
Like _Ariels_ o’er obstacles they soar,
And if an _earl is_ ’vert they rave the more.

68

Off to the links is now their cry,
For golf is man’s _idolatry_:
Be not _dilatory_ or slow,
_Adroitly_ hit the ball will go.

69

No maid e’er _resided_, North, South, East, or West,
More _desired_ than she who _derides_ Love’s request.

70

Though in _adversity_ I be,
It is, alas! _sad verity_
No _vestry aid_ comes nigh to me.

71

_Mastering_ his pride the royal James
Came down upon the _streaming_ Thames;
Like _emigrants_ his court repair
To breath _St Germain_’s freer air.

72

The drop letter lines are as follows:--

With lily leaves his oars are _trifling_,
Her eager hands their treasures _rifling_.
To the fair winds all cares _I fling_,
And echo faintly answers _fling_!

73

The solution of the enigma with missing letters:--

“There was no good ... in the d...y, so the klim,” is--

There was no good air in the dairy, so the milk turned.

74

But unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster.

75

If you write _stale_ _tales_, at _least_ do not _steal_ the _slate_.

76

The six missing words are _Siren_, _risen_, _Erin’s_, _reins_, _rinse_, _resin_.

77

A man of _parts_ had caught a _sprat_,
And it was windy weather;
“Give me my _strap_,” he cried, “to fix
My fish and _traps_ together.”

78

The missing words are _Cesar_, _acres_, _races_, _cares_, _scare_.

79

Buy my ripe _melons_, my _lemons_ who’ll buy?
Don’t look so _solemn_, but take some and try!

80

He who _nips_ may _snip_ at last,
How to _spin_ we show;
Take a sixpence, hold it fast,
Press the _pins_ and blow!

PRINTED BY M‘LAREN AND CO., LTD., EDINBURGH.

Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, etc. and lay-out
have been retained, except as mentioned below. The same applies to
repetitions, (factual) errors, mistakes, unclarities and
contradictions in the puzzles, riddles etc. and in the solutions
provided.

Depending on the hard- and software and their settings used to read
this text, not all elements may display as intended. Several of the
puzzles will only display as intended if a fixed-width font is used.

An attempt has been made to include, where possible, the illustrations
in this text. These are only rough approximations; the actual
illustrations (and therefore better representations of the book’s
contents) are available in the other formats provided at
www.gutenberg.org. Some of the larger elements have been split to fit
in the available width. Some of the symbols used for this graphic
representation are used to approximate the symbols used in the book
rather than for their usual meaning.

Domino tiles are represented by blocks with the number of pips
inscribed rather than by the pip patterns (or they are left blank to
indicate back sides). For the chess problems, a schematic
representation has been used, in which dots represent black squares,
and K, Q, B, R, N, P and k, q, b, r, n, and p represent white and
black king, queen, bishop, rook, knight and pawn respectively.

Page I-7, Monster Magic Square: row 2 column 2 should be 48, not 41;
row 3 column 9 should be 92, not 72.

Page I-30, magic triangle, bottom row 0 should be 8 (as in the
solution on page I-150).

Page I-89, "on opposite sides of the central line": this should be
read "on opposite sides of the central lines" (both horizontal and
vertical).

Page I-130, mens’ tears: as printed in the source document.

Page I-131, An Illusion of Type: the phenomenon described may not work
with every font.

Page I-136, For the Children, last sentence: the opposite is true: If
this is an even quantity the coins or sweets in the right hand are
odd, and in the left even; if it is odd the contrary is the case.

Page II-130, number 81: some words were misprinted or missing
altogether; these have been added based on the context: ... the man
[fe]ll sick ...; [Ho]w ought his estate ...; and ... to [the] widow,
son and daughter.

Page II-148, Notable Chronogram: IAVDES should have read LAVDES, which
would result in the year 1894 (when the organ was blessed).

Page II-176, Solution LXXX: The positions of the dots are indicated in
the text only, not in the diagram.

Page II-204, Solution 65, 12 + ¹⁄₂ = ¹³⁄₂: the calculation only works
if the 12 were replaced with ¹²⁄₂ (or 6), which would be in accordance
with the description.

Page II-206, Solution 77: _two_ and _twenty_ pence should probably
read _two and twenty_ pence.

Page III-3 and III-111, No. III: The illustration in the question is
not the same as the one in the answer.

Page III-25, Begins 2 U U U up: possibly an error for Begins 2 UU U up
(cf. other repeated letters).

Page III-35, No. XXXV, five words: there are six words in the puzzle
(and in the solution).

Page III-53, No. LIII: the occupied squares on the chess board are
indicated by an X.

Page III-77, inspiréd strain: as printed in the source document.

Changes made

Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors and misprints
have been corrected silently.

Some minor lay-out inconsistencies have been standardised without
further remarks; where necessary, table and text-elements have been
re-arranged and aligned in accordance with the description given.

The part numbers have been inserted on the blank pages preceding each
part.

Throughout the book, items from one category (preceded by an Arabic
number) are occasionally printed split over two pages, with one or
more items from other categories (often preceded by a Roman numeral)
between the several parts. For this text, these split items have been
recombined on the page where they originally started, and references
to their respective parts have been deleted.

The part numbers (I, II and III) have been added to the page numbers
for easier reference.

Page I-141: "cigars" changed to "cigares" (French, 2x).

Page II-99, 6¹ changed to 6¹⁄₂.

Pages II-113 and II-185, illustration: reference letter "F" added.

Page II-199: "there they sold" changed to "these they sold".

Page II-225, Solution 6: "f _on_ d l _over_" changed to "a f _on_ d l
_over_".

Page III-7, No. VII: "BVT In trVth" changed to "bVt In trVth".

Page III-7 and III-44, No. VII and XLIV: The chronographs were printed
in small capitals and upper case letters; the former have been
transcribed as lower case letters to retain the meaning according to
the description.

Page III-41, No. 67: "And if -- ---- is ’vert" changed to "And if an
---- -- ’vert".

Page III-46: "chêrit" changed to "chérit".

Page III-67, illustration: unprinted asterisk added to the right-hand
arm of the cross.

Page III-78: "a jamais" replaced with "à jamais".

Page III-108: "stats" replaced with "stets".

Page III-123, Solution XLIII: V inserted in bottom line cf. puzzle.

Page III-124: "stripes" changed to "strips" cf. puzzle.

Page III-128: "86 diamonds and 6 children" changed to "36 diamonds and
6 children".