Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Y EYS'K JMDAXK JZKX MS XAJZZ CURZK: XAZ CYWWUX CUR, XAZ PVJN CUR, YST XAZ LYJXJMTDZ CUR. — GJZTZJMLH TUVDWYKK

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

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.

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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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s Crptogram and have a TERRIFIC TUESDAY.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Monday, June 19th, 2023

HGKDK IDK LINXHKDT ZGV HDIXTMVDP HGK TQX HV I UKEEVZ TLVH, AQH HGKDK IDK VHGKDT ZGV ZNHG HGK GKEL VM HGKND IDH IXB HGKND NXHKEENFKXJK, HDIXTMVDP I UKEEVZ TLVH NXHV HGK TQX. — LIAEV LNJITTV

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

THERE ARE PAINTERS WHO TRANSFORM THE SUN TO A YELLOW SPOT, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHO WITH THE HELP OF THEIR ART AND THEIR INTELLIGENCE, TRANSFORM A YELLOW SPOT INTO THE SUN. — PABLO PICASSO

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[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[A_perfect_lady]

Unfortunately, our first has been compromised.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Now, while the black man can be denied a vote, while the Legislatures of the South can take from him the right to keep and bear arms, as they can—they would not allow a negro to walk with a cane where I came from, they would not allow five of them to assemble together—the work of the Abolitionists is not finished. Notwithstanding the provision in the Constitution of the United States that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, the black man has never had the right either to keep or bear arms; and the Legislatures of the States will still have the power to forbid it, under this [Thirteenth] Amendment. They can carry on a system of unfriendly legislation, and will they not do it? Have they not got the prejudice there to do it with?

(GJZTZJMLH TUVDWYKK, In What New Skin Will the Old Snake Come Forth? Address delivered in New York City, May 10, 1865, pp. 83-84 [In Frederick Douglass Papers, series 1, vol. 4).

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

And, I couldn’t resist….

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

” Unfortunately, our first has been compromised.”

True that. 🥲

[Baldwin77]

The author forgot this one: (they actually determine our freedom)

[Magnum44]

[gitmo]

Two minutes. It seemed longer.

[gitmo]

Is this what he was talking about?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

LOL, I don’t think so.

[enumerated]

And maybe the second