Each word is one letter shorter than the one before. The initials, read downwards, give the name of a South American city.

1. The highest degree of respect.
2. Bitter hatred.
3. A common and useful covering for the floor.
4. A model of excellence.
5. A woman's name.
6. A sharp instrument.
7. A curved structure.
8. Congealed water.
9. An adverb.
10. A vowel.

C. J. B.

11.—Charade.

My first is thick and dark; my second is connected with the sea; my whole is an acid concrete salt, or some one keen and irritable.

C. J. B.

[Answers on page 263.]

Answer to Puzzle on Page 195.

9.—

1. Wellington.
2. Marlborough.
3. Nelson.
4. Blake.
5. Shakespeare.
6. Tennyson.
7. Scott.
8. Dickens.
9. Elizabeth.
10. Victoria.

Answer to 'What am I?' on Page 214.

Dun-dee.