It's a big help in solving cryptograms if you know how a cryptogram is constructed. The constructor normally uses two alphabets, one for plaintext, one for the substitute cipher letters.

All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

Now, all you econazis will have a bird, but when you can think of a way to get me from my home in NV [North Vancouver] to Downtown to Coquitlam to New Westminster to Downtown and back to NV, on the bus, in a total of a little under two hours of driving time, THEN I will take the bus.

the maritime states; a maritime people