meat-dealer's

Updated: July 23, 2025

Everybody is forever washing clothes but nobody ever wears it after it is washed. And what has become of all the birds?" For the first puzzle there is no key, but the traveler gets the answer to the other when he passes a meat-dealer's shop in the town and sees spread on the stalls heaps of pitiably small starlings and sparrows and finches exposed for sale.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Europe Revised