By Mrs. E. I. Ashton

This puzzle is well named, to say the least, and those curving question

marks will try the endurance of the solver to the utmost. Some of you

will get out your Atlases and love this. Others in despair will throw

themselves in the Siberian river and drown their woes. Good luck to all

of you!

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