A.W., AND F.E.D.

DECAPITATIONS.

1.  Behead a bird’s nest, and leave a lake in North America. 2.  Behead a marine map, and leave a wild animal. 3.  Behead a sail vessel, and leave a small narrow opening. 4.  Behead a plant, and leave space. 5.  Behead a basket or hamper, and leave standard or proportion. 6.  Behead a sharp bargainer, and leave a company of people. 7.  Behead a group of individuals, and leave a country girl. 8.  Behead an act of deception, and leave high temperature.

ISOLA.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

The whole, composed of twelve letters, is a noted character of American fiction.

The 1, 8, 4, 12 is to rend asunder.  The 3, 2, 6, 10 is a flower.  The 11, 5, 7, 9 is an open, grassy space.

C. O.

EASY MELANGE.

1.  Behead a pavement, and find a planet. 2.  Syncopate the pavement, and give a shrub. 3.  Transpose the planet, and leave the center. 4.  Behead and transpose the center, and find a weed. 5.  Transpose the weed, and give degree. 6.  Syncopate the center, and leave an animal. 7.  Behead the animal, and find skill. 8.  Curtail the shrub and give excitement. 9.  Behead and curtail the center, and leave a part of the body. 10.  Behead and transpose excitement, and find a plant. 11.  Syncopate excitement, and give an article of clothing. 12.  Transpose skill, and leave an animal. 13.  Reverse the animal, and find a sailor.

CABIN PUZZLE.

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The dots show where the letters are to be placed.  The perpendicular and sloping lines of the building are read downward, the horizontals from left to right.

The letters that form the foundation, reading from extreme left to extreme right, signify (1) a fireside; those of the lower edge of the roof spell (2) liable to taxation; those of the ridge-pole mean (3) calls for; those of the left-hand corner-post denote (4) the cry of a domestic animal; those of the middle corner-post, (5) a free entertainment; those of the right-hand corner-post, (6) a large bird of prey; those of the left-hand sloping roof-edge, (7) an officer in an English university; those of the middle sloping roof-edge, (8) a regulated course of food; and those of the right-hand sloping roof-edge, (9) withered.

The chimney is a double word-square, and reads, downward, (10) bleared, (11) a man’s name, (12) a farm-yard inclosure; across, (13) to plunge, (14) anger, (15) a playing piece in the game of chess.  The door, also, is a double word-square:  it reads, downward (16) a useful insect, (17) a city of Burmah (Farther India), (18) a resinous substance; across, (19) a wooden club, (20) a girl’s name, (21) a part of the human body.