A GARDEN PUZZLE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 103, 13 June 1941, Page 47

A GARDEN PUZZLE

Buried Vegetables N each of the sentences below, the name of a well’: known vegetable is hidden. In this sentence "This weather will MAR ROWing," you will find "marrow." See if you can find the names of the hidden vegetables in these sentences. (1) Then in your opinion, I only am to blame? (2) That would, of course, be another matter, (3) Yes, dear, Conrad is here now! (4) Have you ever seen a wasp in a church? (5) Fancy, the wood in this car rotted right away! (6) When you return I promise to go.

20,000 Teeth in One Snail! ‘A SNAIL has four feelers which he uses for fingers, and they are very sensitive organs of touch. At the tip of each of the larger feelers is a minute but perfect eye. On its tongue are rows of microscopic teeth, 20,000 of them, so he uses his tongue as a Tasp. Book News AMUEL is a snail whose adventures were told from the BBC and then put into a book called The Interminable Trudge of Samuel the Snail. They say that Samuel actually was at the BBC when his adventures were being told, and that he crawled on to the switchboard, which made a slight hitch in the programme. The announcer had to explain it as a temporary mechanical breakdown. But read his adventures in the book-you’ll like them. At the end Samuel says, "I’ve been on the BBC and the rolling sea, They’re both frightfully exciting, but East, West, Home’s Best." However, we hope Samuel will tire of his home and have more adventures so that Mr. Hugh E. Wright will do us another book with drawings by Hastain. Johnny Crow had a garden party — Mr. Leslie Brooke wrote about it when even your fathers were small, Here it is for you to read: