sistance must
be given by any other person.

Competitors can be credited only under their own name.

The decision of the Editor of LITTLE FOLKS on all matters must be
considered final.

I.--GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABETICAL PUZZLES.

In guessing the following Puzzles the letters given, when arranged in
their correct order, will give the names of the places indicated. Thus,
if the word were Scotland, it would be arranged thus--ACDLNOST--(A
country).

SENIOR DIVISION.

_Proem._--ACEFNR (a country).

_Lights._--1. AEEFLLRW (cape). 2. CEEHORST (town). 3. ACIINOSTT
(island). 4. AEHN (river). 5. AACEHILNOP (island). 6. AADEEMNRRSTU
(province).

JUNIOR DIVISION.

_Proem._--AAACDN (a Crown colony)

_Lights._--1. ABCES (gulf). 2. AABDDEGIMRS (sandbanks). 3. AEEHNNVW
(town). 4. AACEGHLNR (port). 5. ADGILNR (river). 6. AEEEIMNRRST (town).

SYNONYM MESOSTICH.

In place of the words given below put others having the same meaning. If
correctly given the centre letters of the lights will give the proem.

SENIOR DIVISION.

_Proem._--A division of Cryptogamous plants.

_Lights._--1. An old kind of weapon. 2. A kind of rich, sweet cake. 3.
Petulantly. 4. Ancient or obsolete. 5. A cloth worker's forked
instrument. 6. Vacuity.

JUNIOR DIVISION.

_Proem._--A division, dignity, or distinction.

_Lights._--1. Strange or whimsical. 2. Inapplicability. 3. Having
differed or dissented. 4. An egg-shaped chemical vessel. 5. A recital of
circumstances. 6. Having flat petals.

SUMMER COMPETITION (PUZZLE NO. 1).

SENIOR DIVISION.

1. Centaury. 2. Polyanthus. 3. Mimulus. 4. Eschscholtzia. 5.
Antirrhinum. 6. Valerian. 7. Achimenes. 8. Clematis. 9. Ageratum. 10.
Berberis.

CLASS I.--Consisting of those who have gained ten marks:--M. C.
Brodrick, M. Breffit, R. Brooke, A. Bradbury, H. Bagnall, N.
Besley, J. Cooper, L. E. Curme, M. Cooper, F. G. Callcott, C.
Debenham, M. Edwardes, H. G. Fraser, W. Farndale, F. Forrest, A.
Golledge, D. von. Hacht, L. Haydon, M. Heddle, G. Curling-Hope, J.
Jackson, M. Jakeman, A. M. Jackson, A. Lynch, M. Lloyd, L. Leach,
B. Law, C. Morin, E. Maynard, F. MacCarthy, M. More, E. Marsden, M.
Mercer, E. McCaul, E. Morgan, G. Martin, M. C. Nix, K. Nix, C. J.
Nix, N. Pybus, E. Roughton, H. R. Stanton, A. Sifton, L.
Wood-Smith, H. R. Dudley-Smith, M. Browning-Smith, A. Sifton, A.
Slessor, Una Tracy, C. Trudinger, B. Tomlinson, A. C. Wilson, M.