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Half-buried in the winter snow 
The Old Year stands and lifts his hands 
Imploringly; 
While over all the frozen lands, 
Or fast or slow , the wild winds blow 
A song of glee. 
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Fifty thousand copies in this issue, and 
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A $50.00 Prize Word Hunt. 
The readers of Seed-Time and Harvest 
have during the past year several times 
been favored with Prize Word Hunts which 
have proved interesting and instructive to 
many, and quite profitable to those who 
have been smart enough to come out ahead 
in the races. As this is a season of compar¬ 
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We therefore hereby offer a prize of $50.00 
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$15, $10, $5, each, respectively, to be award¬ 
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send us the four most complete lists of the 
different words to be found in this (January) 
issue of Seed-Time and Harvest, each con¬ 
taining eight or more letters and having no 
letter repeated. The competition is to be 
governed by the following; 
Pules and Regulations: 
1. All lists must be made strict!// alpha¬ 
betical. Every word found out of place 
will be checked as an error. 
2. Number each word in your list with a 
figure at the left, and after each word lace 
the page upon which it is first found. Let 
the letters a, b, c, and cl. designate the foui 
cover pages. 
3. If a word is to be found two or more 
times givo it once only, naming the page 
upon which it is first found. 
4. All foreign words, parts of com¬ 
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graphical errors, misspelled or misprinted 
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words which are not to be found in the 
body of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 
are to be excluded, and if any such are 
found in a list they will be checked as er¬ 
rors. 
5. If the same word is to be found in 
both the singular and plural form, put the 
singular only on your list. Plurals will on¬ 
ly be counted in case the singular form is 
not to be found in the magazine. Strike out 
all words used in the possessive case. 
6. If you are in doubt as to whether a 
word is allowable or not refer to the Dic¬ 
tionary. If found printed just as it is there 
it is allowable. Otherwise not. The only 
