Two lines from Tennyson. Each word is beheaded and curtailed.
-RU- -EART- -R- -OR- -HA- -ORONET- -N- -IMPL- -AIT- -HA- -ORMA- -LOO-
My first is in bee, but not in fly; My second in moon, but not in sky; My third is in scare, but not in fright; My fourth is in top, and also in kite; My fifth is in broad, but not in wide; My sixth is in ocean, but not in tide; My whole is all New England's pride.
From the letters composing each of the following four sentences make a word-square: 1. Doctor, do Irish histories err? 2. Let their hotel gardener grin. 3. Post shall need man's sympathy. 4. Hurrah, Peg has the gallant pup! The meaning of the words composing the four squares, in the proper order of succession, are as follows:
I. 1. A band of singers. 2. A wandering troop of barbarians. 3. A plant with a sweet-smelling root. 4. A simpleton. 5. Is quiet.
II. 1. A spelled number. 2. A lazy person. 3. A dazzling light. 4. A marsh bird. 5. A river of England.
III. 1. Profundity. 2. To try. 3. A sacred song. 4. A claw. 5. Poems.
IV. 1. A noise that no animal but man can make. 2. The name of a letter of the Greek alphabet. 3. Part of a shoe. 4. A town of Belgium. 5. Deer.
CLASSICAL DOUBLE ACROSTIC.--Virgil--Horace. 1. VoucH. 2. IagO. 3. RoaR. 4. GeorgiA. 5. IoniC. 6. LittlE.
NAMES OF AUTHORS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.--1. Poe. 2. Defoe. 3. Hawthorne. 4. Prescott. 5. Hay. 6. Cooper 7. Sparks. 8. Lever. 9. Lover. 10. Boswell.
CHARADE.--Nightingale; night, in(n), gale.
CENTRAL SYNCOPATIONS.--1. Mouth, moth. 2. Carve, cave. 3. Maxim, maim. 4. Cabin, Cain. 5. Coronet, cornet.
T C I G I G A L I U N A I. T I B E R II. C L O V E III. I N D I A G E M I V Y A I M R E A
PICTORIAL ANAGRAM.--"Procrastination is the thief of time."
INCOMPLETE SENTENCES.--1. Fair, fare. 2. Rite, right, write. 3. Maid, made. 4. Reads, reeds. 5. Beats, beets. 6. Bawl, ball. 7. Mien, mean. 8. Fain, feign, fane.
POSITIVES AND COMPARATIVES.--1. Flat, flatter. 2. Ham, hammer. 3. Gross, grocer. 4. Lad, ladder. 5. On, honor. 6. Eye, ire. 7. Poe, pore. 8. Pie, pyre. 9. Mart, martyr.
DOUBLE WORD-SQUARE.--G O N E A V E R L E E R E N D S
HIDDEN NAMES.--In each sentence, take the first letter of each word. 1. Alma. 2. Helen. 3. Arthur. 4. Mabel. 5. Harry. 6. Ethel. 7. Ernest. 8. Edith. 9. Fred. 10. Stella. 11. Edwin. 12. Grace. 13. Frank.