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Title: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play

Author: A. Cyril Pearson

Release date: April 20, 2022 [eBook #67886]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE f:J SONS, LTD, 1908

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PICTURED PUZZLES AND
WORD PLAY

FRONTISPIECE

Can you discover by anagram what the ape is saying to the elephant, from this descriptive sentence?

A sly tree-ape, he tries a rum telephone.

Exactly the same letters must be used.

Solution

Pictured Puzzles
AND
Word Play

A Companion to
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD
PUZZLE BOOK

EDITED BY
A. CYRIL PEARSON, M.A.

AUTHOR OF
“100 Chess Problems,” “Anagrams, Ancient and Modern,” Etc.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

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GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.