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100 1 _aStearns, J. N.
_q(John Newton),
_d1829-1895
245 1 0 _aMerry's Book of Puzzles
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2016-12-31
508 _aProduced by Chris Curnow, Lesley Halamek, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Merry's Book of Puzzles" by J. N. Stearns is a playful collection of riddles, conundrums, and other brain teasers likely written in the late 19th century. The work aims to amuse and engage young readers with delightful and thought-provoking challenges, promoting intellectual exercise through humor and wit. The opening of the book introduces a cheerful tone through the preface, where the editor, Robert Merry, expresses the goal of bringing joy and laughter to children's lives through puzzles. He aims to instruct and entertain, balancing fun and educational content. The beginning then presents a variety of puzzles, ranging from riddles about young ladies and arrows to questions about peculiar properties of objects, sparking curiosity and inviting readers to engage in playful deduction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPuzzles
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53847
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