There are several other Jumble blogs, but the ones I checked all started off by listing the answers. In this blog, answers can be either hinted at or masked by burying them in comments. No overt spoilers!
All hints are in the comments!
Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Nov. 21, 2018
|| || thank, worry, cattle, defuse, short and "tweet".
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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There was always a worry of a Range War. Cattlemen said beef was what the Plains were for. Farmers said the Plains were perfect for plows, Golden with wheat, un-munched on by cows!
Barbed wire came, to defuse the great bother. Cows on one side, tilled fields on the other. Grains all flourished, from wheat to sweet corn. Livestock also prospered, both short and long horn!
It's said that barbed wire was how the West was won. It kept the peace better than any man with a gun! We can give thanks for this invention, used to this day, Which helped tame the conflicts, in technology's way!
The jumble was very simple for me today. Clues needed no paper to unscramble and the solution popped right out from the cartoon.
I really like the way this poem tells a story, suggested, I'm sure this time, by the third clue word. It presents two sides of a conflict and then resolves the conflict symmetrically and neatly -- more neatly than historically the case. But hey, who's quibbling; it makes a great poem!
Admittedly it does a lot of glossing, but the basic theme of the importance of barbed wire comes thru, I think. Incredible that so mundane a thing should attract its mass of collectors!
I finished early yesterday but couldn't post. I thought the J was write-locked. No, the problem was I was at McDonald's and for some reason, probably good or perhaps well-meaning, McDonald's is considered a serious security risk by blogger.
The big issue in the west was the sheep herders. And barbed wire . I don't think cattlemen objected to protecting tilled land it was wire on the open prairie.
This J was solved pretty quickly. I never got in Tuesday either .
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| thank, worry, cattle, defuse, short and "tweet".
There was always a worry of a Range War.
ReplyDeleteCattlemen said beef was what the Plains were for.
Farmers said the Plains were perfect for plows,
Golden with wheat, un-munched on by cows!
Barbed wire came, to defuse the great bother.
Cows on one side, tilled fields on the other.
Grains all flourished, from wheat to sweet corn.
Livestock also prospered, both short and long horn!
It's said that barbed wire was how the West was won.
It kept the peace better than any man with a gun!
We can give thanks for this invention, used to this day,
Which helped tame the conflicts, in technology's way!
The jumble was very simple for me today. Clues needed no paper to unscramble and the solution popped right out from the cartoon.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way this poem tells a story, suggested, I'm sure this time, by the third clue word. It presents two sides of a conflict and then resolves the conflict symmetrically and neatly -- more neatly than historically the case. But hey, who's quibbling; it makes a great poem!
Admittedly it does a lot of glossing, but the basic theme of the importance of barbed wire comes thru, I think. Incredible that so mundane a thing should attract its mass of collectors!
DeleteWhere is everybody?
ReplyDeleteI finished early yesterday but couldn't post. I thought the J was write-locked. No, the problem was I was at McDonald's and for some reason, probably good or perhaps well-meaning, McDonald's is considered a serious security risk by blogger.
ReplyDeleteThe big issue in the west was the sheep herders. And barbed wire . I don't think cattlemen objected to protecting tilled land it was wire on the open prairie.
This J was solved pretty quickly. I never got in Tuesday either .
WC
I'm a day late. Another romp.
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