. St. Nicholas [serial] . beenrightly guessed and written one below another, the zig-zag, beginning at the upper left-hand letter, and endingwith the lower right-hand letter, will spell the name ofa great Greek sculptor. RUSSELL S. REYNOLDS. WOKD-SQUABE. I. To slope. 2. Farther down. 3. Conscious. 5. Large vegetable growths. david w. colpitts, Jr. (League Member). 959 960 THE RIDDLE-BOX. NUMERICAL, ENIGMA. (Silver Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition.) I AM composed of forty-nine letters and form twolines from a well-known poem. My 35-2-23 is a busy insect, and my 19-8-40-48-27-5i
. St. Nicholas [serial] . beenrightly guessed and written one below another, the zig-zag, beginning at the upper left-hand letter, and endingwith the lower right-hand letter, will spell the name ofa great Greek sculptor. RUSSELL S. REYNOLDS. WOKD-SQUABE. I. To slope. 2. Farther down. 3. Conscious. 5. Large vegetable growths. david w. colpitts, Jr. (League Member). 959 960 THE RIDDLE-BOX. NUMERICAL, ENIGMA. (Silver Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition.) I AM composed of forty-nine letters and form twolines from a well-known poem. My 35-2-23 is a busy insect, and my 19-8-40-48-27-5is a little web-spinner; my 39-46-8-33-10 is a familiartree, and so is my 16-42-30-44-28-14-1-24. My 17-37-8-6-20-32-16-11 is a spring flower, and my 3-11-13-49-43 isa summer flower. My 41-29-9-22-7-42 is a bird with asweet song, my 25-46-31-4-21 is a bird of sable plumage,and 11^45-35-47-6-36-18-9 is a bird of brilliant 28-26-46-34 is a fresh-water duck, while my 12-40-15-38 is delves. VIRGINIA LIVINGSTON In this numerical enigma the words are pictured in-stead of described. When the eleven objects have beenrightly guessed, and the thirty-six letters set down inproper order, they will form the first line of a famousverse. Designed by mildred winthrop weston(League Member). TRIPLE BEHEADINGS. (Gold Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition.) 1. Triply behead glaring, and leave to allow. 2. Triply behead back dues or rents, and leave part ofthe head. 3. Triply behead the workroom of a chemist, andleave the art of speaking well. 4. Triply behead to contract, and leave a line. 5. Triply behead a bugaboo, and leave a malicious elf. 6. Triply behead to resolve, and leave a kind of fur. 7. Triply behead external, and leave a division of ahospital. 8. Triply behead the face, and leave era. 9. Triply behead the edge of a road, and leave lat-eral. 10. Triply behead a relative, and leave to cut down. 11. Triply behead ascending, and leave sick. 12. Triply behead lion-like,
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