Te-Serpent excerpt by Fergus Hume dramatic tale tease
Feigns a comic tale frame with Paul Beecot a penniless writer, meeting rich friend Grexon Tray and Sylvia Norman from a secondhand bookshop clan. The scene shifts through London gloom as Paul plots love and legitimacy while Deb orah Junk guards the door and Bart schemes at the cellar pawnbroker shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fergus Hume
Mr Frame
Sylvia Norman
la Norman
Pash
Turd
Aliss Qian
Gwynne Street
Aaron Norman
Norman
London
Beecot
Hany
Paul
Bart Tawsey
Khain
Aaron
Barry
Bart
Deborah Junk
Sylvia
Paw
Beccot
Deborah
Mar. Beecot
Nick
Nuistad
Nick Bart
Taul
Miss Junk
Pat
Beecher’s Classic Retort About Churchgoers
A witty exchange with Henry Ward Beecher reveals his blunt view. A young man claimed church hypocrisy as a reason to abstain from joining, and Beecher replied that such fools are kept out to preserve the faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Plymouth
The Nearest Approach on Arran Misunderstood Lure Tale
An English tourist in Arran, enamored with Izaak Walton, tries a lure believed to be a dog or horsefly. He asks Christy the Highland servant for horsetail, repeats the request after she fails to understand, then exclaims about a “reay.” The girl replies with a rustic correction about seeing a cow jump over a hedge, highlighting language mix ups.
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Tay
Daleac
Pater Las
Paully
Torrington
Seheaul
Alexander Street
Camden
Ifa
Paul
Grexon
Steerforth
David Copperfield
Pauls
Greson
Hay
Raver
Slick
Orrington
Way
Oxford
West Hind
Junk
Pretty One
Judas
Jezebel
Sylvia
Deborah
Arran
Izaak Wratton
Christy
Bishop’s Odd Direction Riddle Echoes Roadside Wit
A humorous incident features Bishop Wilberforce out driving when a man on horseback asks for directions to head toward heason. The bishop replies with a brisk directional joke, telling him to turn right and keep straight on.
Puzzle No 231 to 237 mixes acrostics and crosswords in a historic page
A scanned puzzle column presents No 231 to 237 with double acrostic themes, numeric riddles and wordplay. It includes clues about geography, materials, ships, government, and literary figures, plus crosswords and fill-in themes typical of a late 19th or early 20th century puzzle page.
Doubly Behead and Eurt in Tailings
Fragmented clues present a puzzle page with numbered items from No 238 to No 250 listing wordplay like beheadings, enigmas, anagrams, geography tricks, and cartoonish dialogue. It reads as a miscellany of puzzles and lost phrases, with stray references to bishops and lakes.
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Imon Beecot
Wargrovel Essex
Pal Familias
Nso
Mr. Bee
Geecot
Beecat
Ike
Turkeycock
Paul Beccot
Bloomsbury
Universal Theater
Oxford Street
Tray
Bond Street
Flushing
Torrington School
Brecot
Torrington Public
West End
Poverty Castle
Indy
Har
Beecet
War
Debby
Wargrove
Pasl
Burt
Jack
Hie
Nsou
Geagr
Lake Erie
Wisconsin
Ute
van Buren
Thomas Jets
Triffin
Flidden Burns
John Kent Thomas Hood
Mace
Cor Tiper
Dayto
Eri
Ice
Orang
Tucso
Leon
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