Jumping Jehoshaphat! Leapin' lizards! There's a whole lot of hurdling going on in this puzzle! Each two-word phrase below represents a word with a single letter out of place. Your job is to get that letter back where it belongs by vaulting it over two to eight letters to the right or to the left. In #1, for example, if you jump the E in MARE over two letters to the right (the R and the I), the result will be MAR RIED, which becomes MARRIED when the space is removed.

Once you figure out which letter leaps which way and how far, that letter is placed in the corresponding blank in the mystery sentence in the answer box below. For example, the E that got moved two letters to the right in #1 jumps over two blanks to the right in the mystery sentence and is placed in the blank marked #4. When spaced properly, the completed sentence will give you some advice on how to keep jumping for joy.

To enter the contest, send that sentence by email to Stephen Sniderman (click here or send to slsnider@cc.ysu.edu ). The first correct response and two others chosen at random from all correct entries received by midnight, May 31, 2000, will earn a prize from Kadon Enterprises, Inc.
 

1.  MARE RID  2.   DIPS RUT  3.  HOARSER DISH  4.   LOB ITERATE  5.  OVEN LIST  6.  SEER VEST  7.  FRANCE HIS  8.  AVER CITY  9.  VENT FUEL 10.  ION FERN 11.  TONS LAUGH 12.   BEGAT IN 13.  POST RATER 14.  DIETER ORATION 15.  HAM BUSES

16  BULL RAGGEDY 17.  AND SCALPED 18.  SEA PARTED 19.  ORES FEE 20.  SECT RUMP 21.  HEW NEVER 22.  TEMPE CRANE 23.  POSE CUTER 24.  SOP ROAN 25.  CAR VOTING 26.  DONOR AILS 27.  AGE DAN 28.  CAP TAIL 29.  ACTION US