PUZZLERS FOR WISE HEADS. 8.-- Rhymed Metagram . 1. Now thin and plain, now rich and sweet, But nearly always good to eat. 2. A pigment painters use when they The lovely blushing rose portray. 3. A garden tool we sometimes need When smoothing soil and sowing seed. 4. Our true regard for any friend; The purpose, final cause, or end. 5. To seize, to choose, to get, to hold, Sometimes to catch, as we catch cold. 6. Active, alive, to cease from sleep; A noisy Irish feast to keep.

C. J. B.

[Answers on page 195.]

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Answers to Puzzles on Page 130.

7.—Never despair.

1. Paris.
2. Pear.
3. Rasp.
4. Veer.
5. Rip.
6. Near.
7. Nerves.
8. Spain.
9. Span.
10. Drip.

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