at a time, in as few steps as possible, make

1. Cat into Dog.
2. Yes " No.
3. Will " Won't.
4. Pony " Cart.
5. Dry " Wet.

7.--ARITHMOGRAPH.

_A Short Proverb._

1.--9, 10, 12, 11, 8. A French city.
2.--9, 7, 10, 12. A delicious fruit.
3.--12, 10, 8, 9. A kind of file.
4.--3, 2, 4, 5. To turn in different directions.
5.--12, 11, 9. To tear, to cut asunder.
6.--1, 2, 10, 5. Close at hand.
7.--1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 8. Organs of sensation.
8.--8, 9, 10, 11, 1. A country in the south of Europe.
9.--8, 9, 10, 1. A very short space.
10.--6, 5, 11, 9. To fall in drops.

C. J. B.

[_Answers on page 167._]

ANSWER TO PUZZLE ON PAGE 98.

5.--_Evangeline._

1. Nile.
2. Lean.
3. Liege.
4. Veal.
5. Vile.
6. Nail.
7. Geneva.
8. Nave.
9. Gain.

ANSWER TO PICTURE PUZZLE ON PAGE 28.

This picture contains the key to itself in the letters which are found
on the walls, the corner-stone, and the gateway--I, C, U, S, X. If these
letters are named in the order given, they form the sentence 'I see you,
Essex,' which Queen Elizabeth is said to have written on a wall or a
window of one of her palaces, as a warning, or perhaps an encouragement,
to Lord Essex.

THE CYPHER TELEGRAM.

(_Concluded from page 124._)

Though it was still only eleven o'clock, the boys were quite ready for
dinner when they reached the lake; and when it was finished and they had
hidden the rest of their provisions in some bushes, Herr Groos gave them
leave to amuse themselves as best they chose till he sounded his horn to
collect them for another meal at four o'clock. He himself was going to
take charge of a botanising party on the Hersch-felsen, and a junior
master was to superintend those who wished to fish in the lake; but
Franz decided to join neither party, as his one idea was to catch a
swallow-tailed butterfly for his friend. At last, finding no one with a
similar ambition, he started on his quest alone.

'I will try the Kuehberg first,' he said to himself. 'If we should meet
the strangers again, it would be fun to prove to them that Herr Groos
was right and they were wrong.'

It was very hot as Franz toiled up the mountain-side, and when at last
he reached the place where his search was to begin, he lay down panting
under some trees at the edge of the wood. On the opposite slope he
could see the yellow caps of his comrades, and the tall figure of Herr
Groos; but where he himself was all was solitude