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at a certain letter and proceed in four different directions. The names of four cities may be spelled. Use no letter twice, except the one with which all four words begin. (League Member).

word-squares are to be read across. Unlike the usual word-square, they do not read the same across and up and down.

I. 1. On the beam. 2. To blight. 3. To strike. 4. The evil one. 5. A bird of ill-omen.

II. 1. A bet. 2. Entire. 3. The color of coal. 4. Not tight. 5. A large bird.

III. 1. A running knot. 2. To lean forward. 3. A rod. 4. A big western farm. 5. The palm from which sago is obtained.

IV. 1. The emblem of peace. 2. A cutting instrument. 3. A mixture of languages. 4. An attempt. 5. A brown pigment.
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V. 4. English noblemen. 2. Fastened. 3. Frozen rain. 4. Ashore bird. 5. A small wax candle.

VI. 1. A fur-bearing animal. 2. A marine mammal. 3. A young hog. 4. A toilet necessity. 5. The end of a boat.

VII. 1. To heat violently, 2. The French word for “cup.” 3. A support for a picture. 4. Over. 5. Flavor.

VIII. 1. Scoffs. 2. Killed. 3. The higher of the two male voices. 4. Disgrace. 5. An animal found in Malacca.

IX. 1. Upright. 2. Ate dinner. 3. A book for photographs. 4. To educate. 5. A wooden shoe.

The letters from 1 to 2, transposed, will spell the name of a magazine; from 3 to 4, transposed, “the Philosopher of Concord”; from 5 to 6, transposed, abridgements; from 7 to 8, transposed, producing balsam; from 9 to 10, stubbornness; from 11 to 12, the state of being brotherly. (age 9)

I. : 1. In disgrace. 2. Dress. 3. Austerity. 4. Obtained. 5. In disgrace.

II. : 1. In disgrace. 2. Very warm. 3. One who rows. 4. A number. 5. In disgrace.

III. : 1. In disgrace. 2. An exclamation. 3. Report. 4, A masculine nickname. 5. In disgrace.

IV.: 1. In disgrace. 2. A smell part. 3. A stream of water. 4. A decoction. 5. In disgrace.

V. : 1. In disgrace. 2. A rug. 3. A cutting instrument. 4. A bauble 5. In disgrace. .


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