Puzzle #472

[Grace]

A -ri---e- -asti- Bea-h, -o-- Is-a--, -a- -at-he- both o- his arti-i-ia- -e-s
-arrie- o-t o- his -otta-e i- the stor-.

Three -a-s -ater, the- -ere -o--- --i--
si-e b- si-e o- a bea-h at East -ori-hes, te- -i-es a-a-.



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Lvpets2002: E/20, B/4 = 44
Karen: A/18, T/15 = 51
Wombat2u2004: O/10 = 20
Pinot’s Mom: S/12, H/ 10 = 22
Lokidog: i/ 15, R/9 = 39

[wombat2u2004]

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[Grace]

wom has the correct answer.


A crippled Mastic Beach, Long Island, man watched both of his artificial legs carried out of his cottage in the storm.
Three days later, they were found lying side by side on a beach at East Moriches, ten miles away.


This is from a book, Sudden Sea, by R. A. Scotti. The event described actually happened during the 1938 hurricane.

[Karen]

Ah! "lying" is the one word I just couldn't figure out!

[lvpets2002]

Poor man without his leggss.. Glad they found them..

[wombat2u2004]

Ah! "lying" is the one word I just couldn't figure out!

That was the last word I had to get to....took me a while to figure it out.