CHARADE.—­Cat.

WORDS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.—­Pot-a-toe, potato; Mo-lasses, molasses; whisky; guinea-pig; false-hood, falsehood; toe-martyrs, tomatoes; pike-rust, pie crust; captive-atin’, captivating; barber-us, barbarous; turn-pike; butter; IV, ivy.

PICTORIAL CHRISTMAS PUZZLE.—­At Christmas play and make good cheer.

ANSWERS TO THE CHESS PUZZLE in the December number were received, before December 18, from “Frederica,” P. Hill, J.E.N.  James T. White, Laura Randolph, S.J.B., “Bessie and her Cousin,” Alice Mason, and M.W.  Collet.

ANSWERS TO THE MAGIC DOMINO-SQUARE PUZZLE in the December number were received, before December 18, from Alice Louise, William Lewis Lockwood, James Buckelew, Howard G. Myers, Jas. Forsyth, E.C.  Rowse, Bertie Pierson, Walter Sanger, Kenneth Hartley, Hattie Coons, Margaret B. Dodge, Alice Downing, Anna A. Hays, Emma A. Gill, “Georgie,” D.C.  Robertson, Willie T. Sheffield, Samuel Herbert Fisher, George D. Mitchell, Carrie Welles, G.L., Emma Elliott, K.C.R., A.H., John Hancock, Jr., Harry Hartshorn, Carrie Doane, Carrie Heller, Eddie F. Worcester, H.S., Fred B. Appleget, “Three of Them” (?), C. Kittinger, “Bessie and her Cousin,” and P. Hill, whose criticism we find just.

Helen L. Gilbert sends the solution of a puzzle in which 18 (not 16) is the sum of the dots in each row of half-dominoes.

ANSWERS TO OTHER PUZZLES in the December number were received, before December 18, from Charles Lothrop, R.T.  McKeever, Arthur C. Smith, Lulu Way, James J. Ormsbee, Fannie Runnels, G.L., “Jennie,” Bancel La Farge, Nellie Kellogg, Allie Bertram, L. Giraud, Alice N. Bailey, Josephine Seibert, “Frederica,” P. Hill, B.P.  Emery, “Bessie and her Cousin,” A.G.  Cameron, “Lizzie and Anna,” Fred S. Pickett, Gracie S. Cook, Leonice Barnes, John Edward Hill, Carrie Heller, Bessie L. Barnes, Helen E. Risteen, “Blotterer and Blunderer,” T.W.  Siddall, Alice Mason, Fred M. Pease, Nessie E. Stevens, P. Hill, Katie E. Earl, M.W.  Collet, and A.H.  White.

ANSWERS TO THE “BLIND-CLERK’S PUZZLE,” in Jack-in-the-Pulpit for December, were received, before December 18, from K.C.R., H.B.  Hastings, and “Nat”; and answers to the TREE PUZZLE from Mary V. Ridgway, “M.,” Linda L. Bergen, H. Walton, H.B.  Hastings, J.C.  Hoadley, Lewis K. Stubbs.

Caroline I. Lockwood, of Tunbridge Wells, England, sends an answer to a puzzle in a former number.