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The answer is a proverb of eight words.  Each numeral beneath the pictures represents a letter in that word of the proverb which is indicated by that numeral—­5 showing that the letter it designates belongs to the fifth word of the proverb, 3 to the third word, and so on.

Find a word that describes each picture and contains as many letters as there are numerals beneath the picture itself.  This is the first process.  Then put down, some distance apart, the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, to correspond with the words of the proverb.  Group beneath figure 6 all the letters designated by the numeral 6 in the numbering beneath the pictures.  You will thus have in a group all the letters contained by the sixth word of the proverb, and you will then have only to transpose those letters in order to form the word itself.  Follow the same process of grouping and transposition in forming each of the remaining words of the proverb.  Of course, the transposition need not be begun until all the letters have been set apart in their proper groups.

S.R.

THREE EASY SQUARE-WORDS.

    I.—­1.  A bard of fame.
        2.  From mines I came.
        3.  A fish’s name.

   II.—­1.  The mountain’s fringe.
        2.  I make slaves cringe.
        3.  A ruddy tinge.

  III.—­1.  What bad men hate.
        2.  I blanch the pate.
        3.  To join or mate.

N. AND VIOLET.

EASY ENIGMA.

  My first is in dark, but not in light;
    My second in girl, but not in boy;
  My third is in peace, but not in fight;
    My fourth in mourning, not in joy;
  My fifth is in flowers, but not in weeds;
    My sixth in kind, but not in cruel;
  My seventh is in drives, and also in leads;
    And my whole is a beautiful jewel.

N.K.K.

REVERSIBLE DOUBLE DIAMOND AND CONCEALED WORD-SQUARE.

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    — E —
  — E — E —
    — E —
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Fill the vacant places with letters to form a reversible double diamond which shall inclose a reversible word-square.—­Centrals:  Perpendicular, to make merry; horizontal, a mechanical power.  Word-square:  1, a number; 2, part of the day; 3, to knit.

H.H.D.

EASY SYNCOPATIONS.

1.  Syncopate a composite metal, and leave a fish. 2.  Syncopate an article of food, and leave an ornament. 3.  Syncopate a map, and leave a vehicle. 4.  Syncopate a pungent spice, and leave a small bay. 5.  Syncopate a wading bird, and leave a reed. 6.  Syncopate a short, ludicrous play, and leave a part of the body. 7.  Syncopate another part of the body, and leave a wild animal. 8.  Syncopate a domestic animal, and leave articles of clothing. 9.  Syncopate a small animal, and leave to ponder. 10.  Syncopate a flower, and leave a domestic animal.