Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 361
save;My eighths are in coaxed, but not in brave;My ninths are in herring, but not in dumb;My tenths are in boisterous, not in thumb;My elevenths, in filibuster, not in try ;My twelfths, in arboriculture, not in cry;My last is in xanthous, but not in tree;Now, if you are clever, you will see :An… … PATRIOTIC NUMERICAL ENIGMA. This differs from the ordinary numerical enigma inthat the words forming it are pictured instead of de-scribed. When the nine objefts have been rightlyguessed, and the letters set down in the order given, thethirty-nine letters will form a patriotic quotation froman…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 361](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-stnicholasserial322dodg-361-489.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial292dodg-583-625.webp)
![An illustration from Emblemata sive symbola a principibus, viris eeclesiasticis [sic] ac militaribus aliisque vsurpanda. Deuises ou emblemes pour princes, gens d'Eglise, gens de guerre, & aultres (1624)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-emblematasivesym24veen-17-12.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial4211dodg-437-560.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial03dodg-564-411.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial122dodg-495-376.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial162dodg-485-387.webp)
