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with one black spot in the sky and a line on the right lower side of her dress

Here it appears the blue was painted over an earlier coat of red

corresponding to the swing out of the glass doors

Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) ]animal menagerie They were ridiculous (the GreaseThis 1856 (I believe first edition) copy of Merry's Book of Puzzles "by Robert Merry" a pseudonym for John Newton Stearns shows its age, but it's a fun one and a scarce one, especially for the page after page of rebus puzzles that fill the first chunk of the book many of which I have photographed, so good! Published for Victorian children, it includes 382 puzzles with an answer key in the rear (here with solutions for puzzles only through #202 due to