Painting #9: The Man With The Violin

BORDER PHRASE: “Riddle de dee, a rose in May. Fiddle de dum, a daisy day.”

BARBED LETTER WORD: SAD

RED LETTER WORD: MELODY

WORD FROM THE MASTER RIDDLE: MIDDAY

HIDDEN HARE: All over the tree.

CLUES & COMMENTS: I do believe it’s the guy from Painting #2.

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paul evans August 9, 2012 at 12:23 pm

When I first read saw this book when it first came out and my whole family used to go through it. My dad had lines drawn through it and we ended up with several copies. I was about 10 yrs old and on the first page I instantly got the ‘One of six to eight’ as being Catherine of Aragon and I also got the equinox dates. THIS picture gave me what I considered to be my biggest clue..The pig has grass on his back..I looked in all the map indexes for a place called HAM HILL. I know it vaguely sounds like Ampthill looking back.
If I had read my Conan Doyle then I would have read ‘The Musgrave ritual’ where Sherlock holmes uses a shadow to find treasure and I think the equinox dates would have become more obvious.
Ironically I only lived 22 miles from Ampthill at the time 🙂 Great site by the way

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