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five or six limbs branching out of a small dead tree. In the center of 

 the twigs it was lined with grasses. The hollow of the nest was 'about 

 one inch deep, just enough to keep the three blue-green eggs that were 

 in it from rolling out. 



About three days had elapsed before I went there again. This time 

 I found three little black birds with a number of white feathers, and 

 large mouths like all young birds. Thinking they would not fly for 

 some time, I did not go there till a week after. I found but one bird 

 in the nest and it was dead, having been killed in a late storm. 



Alfred Boyd, 

 Waterbury, Conn, 



ENIGMA NO. 1. 

 My 1st is in cold but not in hot. 

 My 2nd is in shoot also in shot, 

 My 3d is in light but not in dark, 

 My 4th is in flicker but not in spark. 

 My 5th is in hawk but not in owl. 

 My 6th is in rag but not in towel. 

 My 7th is in dumb but not in talk, 

 My 8th is in saunter but not in walk. 

 My 9th is found in the short word me, 

 My whole is a bird you are glad to see. 



Clarence C. Abbott, 

 New York City, N. Y. 



ENIGMA NO. 2 



My 1-2-3-4 is a planet. 



My 6-7-3-4-5 is severe. 



My 4-2-8 is a carpenters tool. . 



My 1-7-3-4-6 is a swamp. 



My 8-2-4-5 is to cleanse. 



My 4-5-7-3-9 is a large fish. 



My whole is a field bird of 9 letters. 



Charles C. Lewis, 

 Philadelphia, Penn. 



