Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — A Puzzle. [ARTICLE]

A Puzzle.

What sentence is to be found in this square, how many ways it be read? After you have discovered them, see if you can’t discover some way to obey the command: r rer reter retnter retninier retnirinter rimer retnirpeprinter retnirpeheprinter retnirpehtheprinter x re t nirpehty the printer retnirpehtyaytheprinter retn irpehty al’aytheprin ter retnirpehtyaytheprinter retn irpehty teleprinter retnirpehtheprinter retnirpeheprinter retnirpeprinter retnirprinter retnirinter retninter retnter reter rer r fi 'T - - 1 Ah, Pat!” said a schoolmistress to a thick headed urchin into whose muddy braiu she was attempting to beat the alphabet, ••I'm afraid you will never learn any thing. Now what is that letter, can you tell me!” •‘Sure, and I don’t know, ma’am,” replied Pc.t. ••I ,'tiiougjit you might have remembered tt.a’.” • “Why ma’am!” “Because it has a dot over the top of it.” - “Och, I mind it well,butsure I thought it was a fly speck.” “Well, now, you must remember, Pat, it’s I.” “Y’ou, ma'am!’’ “No, no! not U, but I.” “Not I but you, ma'am —how is that!” “Not yon but I, blockhead.” “Qch; vie faith, now I have it ma’am. tY-6u mean to say that not I but you are a blockhead.” “Fool! fool!” exclaimed the pedagoguess almost bursting with rage.” “Just as you please,” quietly returned Pat; “fool - or blockhead —it's no matter, as long as yer free to own it.”