Posted on 06/30/2022 7:08:38 AM PDT by nikos1121
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The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!
I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.
From The Arkansas Gazette
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A Summer’s Day
Black bees on the clover-heads drowsily clinging,
Where tall, feathered grasses and buttercups sway;
And all through the fields a white sprinkle of daisies,
Open-eyes at the setting of day.
Oh the heaps of sweet roses, sweet cinnamon roses,
In great crimson thickets that cover the wall!
And flocks of bright butterflies giddy to see them,
And a sunny blue sky over all.
Trailing boughs of the elms drooping over the hedges,
Where spiders their glimmering laces have spun;
And breezes that bend the light tops of the willows
And down through the meadow-grass run.
Silver-brown little birds sitting close in the branches,
And yellow wings flashing from hillock to tree;
And wide-wheeling swallows that dip to the marshes
And bobolinks crazy with glee;–
So crazy, they soar through the glow of the sunset
And warble their merriest notes as they fly,
Nor heed how the moths hover low in the hollows
And the dew gathers soft in the sky.
Then a round beaming moon o’er the blossomed hill coming,
Making paler the fields and the shadows more deep;
And through the wide meadows a murmurous humming
Of insects too happy to sleep.
Enchanted I sit on the bank by the willow
And hum the last snatch of a rollicking tune;
(Insert today’s CG here)
Got all but the last word.
What’s it a quote from?
Please see post #3
Some additional quotes from this person:
“American Ladies Are Known Abroad For Two Distinguishing Traits (besides, Possibly, Their Beauty And Self-reliance), And These Are Their Ill-health And Their Extravagant Devotion To Dress.”
“The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.”
“Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.?”
“Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.”
This truly is the most lovely month of the year.
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Got hung up on the same word; only figured it out by the process of elimination
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Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
THE PEDIGREE OF HONEY DOES NOT CONCERN THE BEE; A CLOVER, ANYTIME, TO HIM, IS ARISTOCRACY. —EMILY DICKINSON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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