PUZZLERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 442, 25 August 1928, Page 29

PUZZLERS

RIDDLE-ME-REE My first is in shadow, but not in deep. My second is laughter, but never in weep. My third is in now and also in then. My fourth is in swallow, but not in wren. My fifth makes scarcely a sound when pronounced. ' My sixth is you when yourself you’ve announced! My seventh is found in number and name, iMy last is in pleasure and also in j game. | Have you guessed my whole? ’Tis i that glorious thing j That we always look for in the spring. I * * * I Word square: 1. —To discover. 2. —A flash of though 3. —Not far. 4. —Night. ! Answers to last week’s puzzlers: Word square: Home. Opal. Mail, j Ella. i Riddle-me-ree: Good scribes. PETER ELF Peter Lilt climbed through the nursery window and began to explore. He did so love to have adventures that he forgot his mummy had told him not to climb in his new rose-leaf suit. But, you see, the nursery was empty; it was such a good chance to have a look at the funny thing on the table that had puzzled him for days and days. ! He crept up to the inkpot and i pressed his little pink nose close to ! the glass to And out what was inside, j “Oh!!” said Peter Elf to himself, | “I think it must be black water.” Then he climbed up the side of the inkpot to have a better look. > But he forgot to hold tightly, and the glass was so slippery that h 6 tumbled right in. Oh, dear, he was frightened! He tried so hard to get out that his lovely new suit fell off and sank to the bottom of the Inkpot. Peter didn’t mind; he was so. pi,eased to get out. He ran home as fast as he could and mummy Elf had to put him in a dew-bath and scrub hard to get the ink off! The next morning when Betty and Paul were having their lessons, Paul pushed his pen right into the inkpot and when lie pulled it out there was a tiny ball of black stuff on the end of it. “Book what I’ve found?” he cried. “’Spect it’s the piece of blotting paper you dropped in yesterday,” said Betty. But it wasn’t, was it? Of course not! It was naughty Peter Elf’s little lost suit.