PUZZLERS FOR WISE HEADS. 12.-- Curtailments . Curtail stiff and strict, and leave a Swiss mountain. Curtail a large country in Asia, and leave the point of the under jaw. Curtail a scooping instrument, and leave to push. Curtail acute and discerning, and leave a kind of mouse. Curtail a raised floor or platform, and leave a horned animal. Curtail an island on the Kentish coast, and leave a Saxon nobleman.

C. J. B.

13.—Conical Puzzle.

The middle letters of each word read downwards give the name of a well-known English poet.

1. A consonant.
2. A price fixed after all deductions have been made.
3. To gaze, to look with fixed eyes.
4. To disperse, to throw loosely about.
5. Kindnesses, good wishes, benefits, favours.

C. J. B.

[Answers on page 290.]

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Answers to Puzzles on Page 230.

10.—Valparaiso.

1. Veneration.
2. Animosity.
3. Linoleum.
4. Paragon.
5. Amelia.
6. Razor.
7. Arch.
8. Ice.
9. So.
10. O

11.—Tar-tar.

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