Truly, the church was a great institution--the solution of all the puzzles and problems of life.
Cut-up picture puzzles, painting books, tracing slates with large and simple designs cultivate observation and ingenuity.
You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for.