1.  “Do you buy paper ——­ ——­ or reams?” ——­ one school-girl of
   another.
2. ——­ ——­ Puritans do not regard it as you free ——­ men might. 3.  He built ——­ ——­ when in ——­, and lived like the natives
   themselves.

B.

PICTORIAL QUADRUPLE-ACROSTIC.

The initials and finals of the words represented by the small pictures name two objects to be seen in the central picture.  Two other words relating to the central picture may also be found in succession, by taking one letter from each of the words represented by the small pictures.

L.J.

[Illustration]

CHRISTMAS ENIGMA.

The answer is a proverb relating to Christmas.  Forty-four letters.  My 2 30 9 8 24 38 15 22 32 27, and also 25 20 11 38 31 25, and 6 13 17 35 25 9 18 29 2 are used in Christmas decorations. 36 1 26 42 9 16 are rung, 44 41 7 38 39 31 16 are told, 24 4 6 2 12 are played, 10 11 33 26 21 2 5 12 is laid aside, 19 9 43 38 35 37 16 are brightened by yule logs, 34 23 14 11 20 25 salutations are exchanged, 28 22 4 8 35 44 gladdened, and 3 7 11 38 27 winged, all at the good old Christmas-time.

B.

AUTHORS’ NAMES.

The answers will give respectively the names of sixteen authors.

1.  A cat’s cry and a Scotch lake. 2.  The value of the rim 3.  A rough or clumsy cut between a sunbeam and the old ladies’ beverage. 4.  A man’s name and an island. 5.  A teacher commanding one of his male scholars to perform his task. 6.  A bun and a hotel. 7.  A light, and a “k,” and a measure of length. 8.  Strong and well.

   9.  Two-thirds of an eye; a Scotch title prefixed;
      With a shoe-maker’s tool nicely put in betwixt: 
      If you look at it closely, I think you will find
      An essayist, poet, historian, combined.

10.  Conqueror, embrace O. 11.  Indispensable to printers, and a little bed. 12.  A bit, and a horse’s cry. 13.  A small nail and a Spanish title. 14.  A boy’s nickname and an humble dwelling. 15.  The patriarch Jacob between “D” and myself.

  16.  If two pretty girl-names together you tie
      (Some E’s you must lose, for “I can’t tell a lie"),
      The name of two poets at once you’ll descry.

M.M.

A RIMLESS WHEEL.

The wheel is made of four words of seven letters each, with a common central letter.  The first word is written vertically, the second horizontally, the third diagonally from left to right, and the fourth diagonally from right to left.  The half of each word, from the outside to the central letter (but not including that letter), forms a smaller word.  The whole line of dots from 1_a_ to 1_b_ including the central letter, indicates the first of the four principal words, while 1_a_ indicates the first of the small words belonging to it, and 1_b_ indicates its second small word.  This numbering and lettering applies also to the other words.  The central letter is given, and all the words are defined below.