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This differs from the ordinary numerical enigma in that the words forming it are pictured instead of described. The answer, consisting of thirty-four letters (shown in the eight little pictures), is a proverb which teaches contentment.

All of the words described contain the same number of letters, When rightly guessed and written one below another, the diagonal (beginning with the upper left-hand letter and ending with the lower right-hand letter) will spell a common word.

Cross-words: 1. Blotting out. 2. Part of the body. 3. Pertaining to a pirate. 4. Displayed. 5. Contented. 6. Working. 7. An astringent fruit. 8. The principal church in a diocese. 9. A large, web-footed sea-bird.

Example: A narrow opening; transpose, and make portions, Answer: slot, lots.

1. A hard substance; transpose, and make a light substance. 2. Hovels; transpose, and make closed. 3. A fruit; transpose, and make to gather. 4, Mellow; transpose, and make a wharf. 5. A point of the compass; transpose, and make a chair or bench. 6. Certain nocturnal fliers; transpose, and make to pierce. 7. Domesticated; transpose, and make a companion. 8, Gait;

transpose, and make a garment. 9. Parts of the head; transpose, and make to burn.

When the transpositions have been rightly made, write the words one below another. The zigzag (formed by taking the first letter of the first word, the second letter of the second word, the first letter of the third word, the second letter of the fourth, and so on) will spell a season of festivities.

1. Part of the head. 2. Surface. 3, To rinse. 4. A feminine name.

From 1 to 2, a continent; from 1 to 3, a city on the northern coast of Africa; from 2 to 4, one of the United States; from 3 to 4, an island in the Malay Archipelago; from 5 to 6, a seaport in British East Africa; from 5 to 7 the name of city and a lake in Nicaragua; from 6 to 8 a territory; from 7 to 8, a country of Europe; from 1 to 5, a country of Asia; from 2 to 6, a city of Upolu; from 4 to 8, a continent; from 3 to 7, an island of the Lesser Antilles, belonging to the Dutch.