Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

The one copied for her / think can
not but interest Bessie and her little
friends, it is such a true ''lttle girls
letter.. Sincere sympathy will be
felt for poor Dollie and the Canary.
The solving of the Enigma and the
game, Jennie and johnnie must con-
slider as the replies to their kind notes
for the present.-Aff. "CoUsIN JOSIE"
l promised to send you description
of how to solve the enigmas. 1t is a
very simple process, requiring only
thought and attention. If you will
learn to solve the few simple ones I
at first send you, have others that
will tax your skill and patience all
you need. To solve the one 1 sent
last month, proceed thus.
1t is composed of twenty-three let
tiers. Arrange on piece of paper
figures thus
10 IL Il ID II 16 II Is 10 20 q % %
hoseawpar II C | u r C N o II t II h
Then, as there are nine words to be
discovered place other figures thus.
l Saw Rope Choatt
Hoe 5Ape Snare
Pork Lee Q Manns
placing other figures against the same
order Of words to be cenned in the en-.
igma. A carpenter and mechanics
tool having but these letters, you as
certain by thinking to be Saw, place
the under the figure 3, under 5, "
under 6. Then the word, your mum
Der l writing the replies.
The farmers tool you are certain
must be hoe. So you place the
single letters under the figures deslg
mated, and the word in the order OF
figures 2.
AS to the next word, Beef and Porl
and Veal each have four letters wal
before deciding the word until you
have looked further, when some Letter
in another word will indicate which is
the one. Here we can easily find it
In our second word the letter under the
figure 2 is o then pork, not beef il
the kind of meat. Having found tina
is the letter for the figure 2 and +
for the figure we find rope will
supply the letters for the next answer
With care and thought 1 do not feaI
but you will be able to solve the whole
enigmas now. Finding the answer
to be Hosea w. Parker Claremont, N
H. The verse for the drop letter
verse is this:
| Cover the embers
And put out the light;
| foil comes with the morning,
| And rest with the night"
The enclosed game of"Queries" 70
some past member Of the "Household
| think will interest and call fort
thought and skill.
A GAME OF QUERIES
"What has two wings, two legs,
backbone and tail? ?"
This is easy enough for the young
est, and is quickly answered. "a bird.
Then another who is ready, asks
perhaps, "What has no arms, no leg.
but O. head, a tail, and backbone
Answered, ga fish or a snake"
Another asks, ga backbone, heat
a tail, four legs, and trunk?"
Answered, can elephant"
ga backbone, head, two leg
and many trunks"
Answered, after much guessin,
"A lady"
"What has a back, two arms, ia
, sometimes two, )no legs, and i
head?" "A coat"
, ''What lives and gets along wi
no bead, no legs, no wings, no arm
and no backbone?" "a worm"
''What has two horns and nothir
e else| GA dilemma"
"Two claws, eight legs, no hea
,, but tail?" "A lobster"
"Two wings, many legs, and a We
3 great variable number of arms?" A
army"
: "Four legs, one foot, head, al
o no tail 2" "a bed"
''Six legs, two wings, and no bac
> bone?" "a fly"
/ Who will succeed in answeril
3 these which have no answers givel
What has two wings sometime
t and sometimes one, sometimes nor
G and no backbone?
: No wings, and no head, but 70
: legs?
: What is that which runs along wi
t its head at one end of it, and its mou
0 at the other?
A back and no bone, face and
head, two hands and no arms, al
, not even one leg?
G What has a brow and foot,
I no head or limbs F?