sea;
2. In slave, but not in free;
3. In lose, but not in find;
4. In heed, but not in mind;
5. In barn, but not in shed;
6. In black, but not in red;
7. In hill, but not in mound;
8. In held, but not in bound.
What's the answer?--can you say?
'Tis something boys much like to play.

CYRIL DEANE.

=GEOGRAPHICAL TRANSPOSITIONS.=

1. ---- ---- a good post at ----. 2. Did you notice the carved ---- in that
old cathedral door in ---- ? 3. ---- ---- with pleasure from Geneva,
for ----. 4. I took great ---- to witness these national games, when
in ----. 5. I found ---- gold in a mine in ----. 6. I could stand ---- in
the entrance to the cave in ----. 7. I have ---- interest in ---- than in
any other foreign city.

B.

=OMNIBUS WORD.=

In a word of five letters find: 1st. An hour-glass puzzle, the central
letters of which, read downward, signify to perform again; horizontally,
a symbol often used in writing, a beverage, a vowel, a performance, to
provide. 2d. A word-square containing a unit, a vehicle, an epoch. 3d.
Words to each of which one letter may be prefixed so as to form another
word: a preposition, an animal; a verb, a weed; a study, a vehicle; a
part of the body, a sign of sorrow. 4th. Words to fill appropriately the
blanks in each stanza below, by prefixing a letter to the first word,
when found to form the second, and by prefixing a letter to the second
to form the third:

I would not heed so small an ----,
When dealing with one of his ----,
Or of my temper leave a ----.

We asked him in; he sat and ----
Of the ripe fruit at such a ----,
He lowered well the heaped up ----.

H. H. D.

=ACCIDENTAL HIDINGS.=

In these quotations find five girls' names, without transposing any
letters.

"Of such as wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient solitary reign."--_Gray._

"Where olive-leaves were twinkling in every wind that blew,
There sat beneath the pleasant shade a damsel of Peru."_Bryant._

"Slowly she raised her form of grace;
Her eyes no ray conceptive flung."--_Hogg._

"Stainless worth,
Such as the sternest age of virtue saw."--_Bryant._

=PERSPECTIVE-CROSS PUZZLE.=

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