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marked with an index finger. Should any 
persons think that they have sent correct 
answers and not receive a marked copy to 
indicate it, we will on notification confess 
our error or show them theirs. Though a 
great portion of the answers were strictly 
correct, there were some surprising errors. 
For instance twenty-seven persons gave the 
single word Northumberland as containing 
13 different letters, and therefore the ban¬ 
ner word. Fifteen gave the word Zepliy- 
ra,n thus in their list as containing 12 differ¬ 
ent letters. Twenty-nine gave Simultane¬ 
ously as 12. and two claim it has 13 different 
letters. Eight still claim that Handker¬ 
chiefs has 12, although we expressly said it 
had not when using it, and these people 
must have read our remarks to that effect 
or they would not have found the word. 
Thirty-one persons made allusion to the 
word Cinerar ice folium which has 11 differ¬ 
ent lettes besides the diphthong ae. Some 
claim this should be counted as a separate 
letter from u, and e, and some that it should 
not. It is certainly not a different letter. 
Both a, and e, are elsewhere in the word, 
and are counted separately to make 11. If 
we were to expunge the a, and e where used 
separately, would not any one claim that it 
still had 11 different letters ? If so it cer¬ 
tainly has but 11 as it stands. Nine persons 
claim that Py rethrum Cineraricefolium is 
one word because it is given as the name of 
a plant. It is nevertheless two words un¬ 
less connected by a hyphen when it might 
be called a compound word, and would then 
have been allowable. Pantry shelves was 
printed with a hyphen, though it ought not 
to have been, and five persons gave it in 
their list. Fortunately there are but 11 dif¬ 
ferent letters or we should have had to al¬ 
low it on account of the hyphen. In our 
future contests we shall strive to make the 
requirements so exact that more care will 
be required and those who do exercise care 
will get pay for it. 
It will no doubt be very unsatisfactory 
for us to remit the small amount of 10 cents 
each to the successful competitors, as it will 
amount to nothing to any one of them, and 
will cost us considerable time and trouble 
to do it. We shall therefore let them decide 
who shall have the $20.00 by working out 
another w ord-hunt in which outsiders will 
not be allowed to take part. We will send 
each a certificate which must be returned 
with your answer in the new r contest. 
The New Requirement. 
Give an alphabetical list of the different 
words of seven letters and over to be found 
in this (October) number of Seed-Time and 
Harvest, in which no letter is repeated. 
A word found in your list which ought not 
to be there will be checked as much an er¬ 
ror as the omission of an allowable wmrd. 
Make your list strictly alphabetical. A 
w T ord out of place will not be counted but 
will be checked as an error. Number each 
word in your list by a figure at the left, and 
after each place the number of the page on 
which it is first found. Let the letters a, b. 
c, and d, designate the four cover pages. 
If a word is found two or more times give 
it once only, naming the page on winch it 
is first found. Compound words, printed 
with a hyphen, are allowable. Typograph¬ 
ical errors, should any occur, if plainly 
printed must be written as they are printed, 
but if a letter simply fails to show plainly 
where the sense shows it should be, supply 
it. Competition closes November 10th, and 
the announcement of the award will be 
made in our December number. A similar 
exercise, open to everybody, will soon be 
given with a heavy pirze, and if outsiders 
wish to practice in anticipation of it, this 
will afford a good opportunity. See how 
near a correct answer you can get “just for 
fun, you know,” and perhaps next time you 
can capture a good prize. 
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