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It was the very last day of March. The next day Patty must send in her answers to the hundred puzzles, and she still had four of them unsolved. She had worked on these all day, and her brain was weary. Kenneth came in late in the afternoon, but he couldn't help, as he had no knack for puzzles.
"I don't like them, Patty," he declared. "You see acrostics have cross words to them, and cross words always irritate me. I like kind words."