No. 247 · Week of April 19, 1973Six Rungs · A Hard One
From Verna — Here is this week's ladder. Six rungs, EMBER down to LIGHT,
one letter changing each step and a real word on every line.
One of these clues is meaner than I meant it — Roy would have got it in ten minutes
and laughed at me. Take your time. Work it across the week if you like;
that's what the kitchen drawer is for.
Roy got this one in eleven minutes the first time I built it, back in '69.
I never used it then because he said it was too easy. I'm using it now because
four years on I think eleven minutes is exactly the right amount of time
to spend with a thing.