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Edited by Frank S. Finn. 
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All communications for this department 
should he addressed to Frank S. Finn, Box 
SO, Bryanfs Pond. Maine. 
Answers to January Garnerings. 
1. Whip-poor-will. 
2. S N A C U T 
nebula 
abuser 
C U S PI S 
U L E I N E 
T A R S E L 
-4. MYSELF (MICE-ELF.) 
No. 20. Numerical Charade. 
Onward, speeding o’er the land, 
1 to 3 is found to-day; 
4 to seven, on either hand, 
Bearing burdens grave or gay. 
Tis ever gliding, rushing sliding, 
Past many a garden plot it speeds; j 
Where 1 to 7 peeps o’er the weeds, 
Its snowy blossoms half in hiding. 
Mblrork. 
3. H 
BAT 
B I L II A 
H A L B E R D 
THERE 
A R E 
D 
No. 21. Amputations. 
Behead me, and you’ll plainly see 
A figure used quite frequently. 
Replace my head, cut off the tail, 
An exclamation will prevail. 
The head and tail together bind, 
A Russian arrow you will find. 
5. 
FLEET 
OVERT 
ALIAS 
SPRAY 
SEWER 
6. SEVERED 
EVADED 
VALID 
EDIT 
R E D 
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7. 1. MARIGOLD. 2. PORTULACCA. 3. FORGET-MK- 
NOT. 4. BA0HELOR’8 BUTTON. 
8. The Letter E'. 
I. N. Q, 
No. 22. A Diamond. 
1. A consonant. 2. A cistern. 3. Strength of 
mind in regard to danger. 4. An acorn. 5. The first 
tone of the scale. 6. A district over which govern- 
ment is exercised. 7. A vowel. 
J. F. M. . 
MARCH GARNERINGS. 
No. 17. Numerical Enigma. 
The answer, composed of 42 letters, is a verse in 
St. Matthew. 
The 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9, II is the last course at table. 
The 2, 10 , 8, 16, 19, 21, 42 is versed in literature or 
science. 
The 40, 38, 41, 27, 40, 39 is my given name. 
The 37, 33, 30, 22, 23, 32 is used by sheep-shearers. 
The 1, 17, 24, 28, 13, 9 is an improvement. 
The 20, 30, 34. 23, 11,12 is the floor of a fire-place. 
The 5, 29, 18, 14, 17, 7 is to send by water. 
The 32, 15, 35, 36, 18, 6, 42 is to soil. 
The 25, 35, 26, 31, 7 is a boy’s given name. 
Box 99. 
No. 18. Transposed Acrostics. 
This puzzle is composed of eight words, the letters 
of which are six. The third and fifth letters of each 
line read down form two words of these same letters 
differently arranged. 
1. Apartments for males in ancient Greece and 
Rome. 2. A sophism. 3. To invest with flesh. 4. 
A tree resembling the Banana. 5. Three cards of a 
sort in certain games. 6. A coal mart. 7. To tease. 
8. An ore of zinc. 
No. 23. An Octagon. 
1. A species of fishes 2. An opinion. 3. One who 
corrupts. 4. To give vigor to. 6. Recounted. 6. 
Ladies’ wigs. 7. A color. 
Anna Condor. 
No. 24. Word Syncopations. 
1. Take part of the hoof of a horse from exclusion, 
and leave to make mad. 2. Take a knot formed on 
a rope by spun yarn, from crooked and leave a 
messenger. 3. Take the sea-eagle from a Moorish 
cloak and leave to drink greedily. 4. Take deep 
pools from a sort of shale and leave bordered with 
a leafy expansion. 5. Take a foolish fellow from an 
indeclinable noun and leave an animal. 
6. Take a brook, from consisting of clay, and leave 
pertaining to certain plants growing in shady places. 
Maude. 
Answers in April Magazine. 
Prizes: For best list of answers to this month’s 
Garnerings, we offer Barbara Bee Riddle Book No. 1. 
For second best list we will award, Barbara Bee 
Riddle Book No. 2. 
Lists will close on April 13 
Third line down: To embellish. 
Fifth line down: Furnished with a boot. 
Maude. 
No. 19. Transpositions. 
1. Change alluring into wash. 2. Relish, into con¬ 
dition. 3. A military movement into to bewitch. 4. 
An animal into to prop. 5. To assist into part of a 
poem. 6 Excursions into rabbles. 
Undine. 
Answers to January Garnerings were received! 
from Lackawanna lad, Angelina ’s., Dan Shannon, 
Mary Emmett, Anna Condor, J. F. M., Will E. Shedd, 
Ike Annot, George Kendall, Sally, Tim and Tip, E. F* 
Krane, Charles Noble, I. N. O., George H. Hayes, 
Donald Dyke, Millicent Rivers, Undine, Ira Curtis, 
Chester Savage, Ajax, E. N. E., Sage, Maude, Zeuf 
Young Idea, F. I. G. and Soinno. 
Prizes for best list of answers were awarded to 
I. N. O. and Maude. 
