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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 495

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h is in cloud, but not in fog;My ninth is in loop, but not in ring;My whole is a flower that comes in spring.LILY WELLS. DIAMOND. 1 In pickerel. -. A porker. 3. A tinker.4. The reports of proceedings in the BritishParliament 5. A poisonous trailing plant.6 Sumptuously. 7. Comical. 8. Twenty-four… … This differs from the ordinary numerical enigma, in that the words forming it are picturedinstead of described. The answer, consisting of sixty-five letters, is a couplet by Herrick, and embodies the same idea as the Latin quotation given on the pictured book. THE RIDDLE- BOX. 959 EASY…

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