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All Communications intended for thin 
Department shovd be addressed to Frank 
8. Finn, Box 50 , Bryant's Pond, Maine. 
Answers and original contributions solic¬ 
ited from all. 
No. 72. Hai.f Square. 
1. A wall for defence. 2. Worshipped. 8. Asmall 
bird. 4. Parched. 5. To confine. 6. A masculine- 
nickname. 7. Always in trouble. 
Lackawanna Lad. 
No. 73. Decapitations. 
1. Behead a cross-beam, and leave to free from cap¬ 
tivity by a price. 2. Having made a will, and leave 
condition 3. Touch, and leave gesticulation. 
Anna Condor. 
Answers to October Garnerings. 
55. The man who is elected. 
50. 1. Sweet William. 2. Mourning Bride. 3. 
Wandering Jew. 4. Love-in-a-mist. 5. Morning 
•lory. 6. Fever Few. 
No. 74. Curtailments. 
L Curtail a public declaration, and leave obscure. 
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2. To conclude and leave the conclusion 
calyx of certain plants, and leave sullen. 
A Garnerer. 
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DECEMBER GARNERINGS. 
No. 69. Numerical Enigma. 
The answer, composed of 53 letters, is a quotation 
from Thomas Burns. 
The 32, 24, 34, 16, 35, 21, 37, 1, 28, 53 is depressed in 
the middle. 
The 38, 6, 46. 49, 17, 33, 39, 4. 17, .33, 39,4, 17 is a 
French measure. 
The 2, 51, 9, 30, 43, 26. 3 is a thrust. 
The 10, 41, 7, 13, 27, 15 is to make happy. 
The 48, 12, 50, 8. 19 is a sweet secretion from many 
trees. 
The 31, 18, 36, 44, 42 are well known leguminous 
plants. 
The 40, 29. 11. 22, 52 is to furnish. 
The 25, 5, 20 is a quadruped. 
The 45, 14, 23 was a governor of Algiers before the 
French conquest. 
Sally. 
No. 70. Double Acrostic. 
(Words of five letters.) 
1. Extent. 2. To decorate. 3. To hesitate. 4. To 
encounter. 5. Violation of law. 6. Odor. 7. Trifling 
Primals: Natural. 
Finals: To beg. 
C. H. Putnam. 
No. 71. Cross Word Enigma. 
In light, not in dark; 
In list, not in hark; 
In big, not in tall; 
In large, not in small; 
In rain, not in snow; 
In wilt, not in grow; 
In yell, not in roar; 
Whole, we should be thankful for. 
Mead. 
No. 75. Word Anagrams. 
1. Oh, I cry and chop! 2. Say, do I cry “sin”? 
Seward Beard. 
No. 76. Buried Pyramid. 
Cross Words. 
1. The cowslip. 2. The state of not showing color 
from the decomposition of light. 3. The act of un¬ 
settling. 4. A certain theory in painting. 5. Those 
who have a legal claim on an estate. 6. Congratu¬ 
lations. 7. A softening. 
Hidden Pyramid. 
1. A vowel. 2. White metal. 3. To earn, (obs) 
4. A celebrated painter, 5. Embarassed. 6. Tbi, 
act of drawing out. A softening. 
Diagonals of Pyramid. 
From center down to left: One who punishes 
From center down to right: Imperfect. 
Maude. 
Prizes: For best list of answers, a family garden 
collection of 20 packages of Vegetable and Flower 
Seeds. 
For second best list of answers. Seed-Time and 
Harve t for one year. 
Answers must be received before Jan. 14 to b* 
credited in the February number. 
Answers in February number. • 
Answers to the October Garnerings were received 
from B. M. H., Lackawanna Lad, O. Mission Anna 
Condor, Sadie, Ruthven, Veteran, Betsy Ann ’ Elder 
Blow, Tim and Tip, Will E. Shedd, Hattie B. Kendall 
Sadie E. Kendall, John F. Merriam, Ida No, Ike An- 
nott, Pussycat, B. Wildred, Dyke Anderson, Undine 
John King, Lawrence, La Plume. Sally, a. Garnerer' 
E. N. E Lou, Ann Tick, Teledu, Activity, Dandy 
Pratt, Eloise Stanhope and Penn Archer. J y 
Prizes for best list of answers were awarded to 
B. M. H. and Lou. 
Our Cozy Corner. 
Angelina 8.: The Charade submitted is one of 
your best, and shows you to be an adept in rhyming 
puzzles. In this life no one is always successful in 
all his efforts. We cannot tell why this is so. We 
think it may be because one cannot always have the 
true estimate of his labors. Please continue to be A 
co U tr i^ ut 7 ? r ’ and we will ensure you a good reception. 
—B.M. H : Vain his attempt who strives to please 
them all.” Comment is needless.—Low, who is a 
new-comer, writes: “ We have taken quite an inter¬ 
est in the Garnerings, and often have solved most of 
the puzzles but never sent an answer before but 
have concluded to send at once, whether they are 
correct or not. ” l hat is the right way to do, and we 
wish that all our readers would forward the result of 
their labors, if they have but one answer to send — 
Anna Condor: Like some others, you sent but one 
solution to No. 60. You will notice that it was a 
double puzzle and had two answers.— Ann Tick: We 
endeavor to conduct the department to the best of 
our ability, to be just to all and partial to none. We 
have had but one complaint, and we felt sorry for 
