TRICKY FIGURES.
1. Ask your chum to write down quickly in figures twelve thousand twelve hundred and twelve. ■J. Express 100 by using the same figure mx times. "o. How long would it take a draper to divide 20 yards of cloth into yard lengths if siie cut off one yard per second? 4. How many apples can a boy eat on an empty stomach? These arc the answers:— (1) 13,212. (■2) 00 00-00. (:n 10 seconds. (4) One, because after that his stomach would be no longer empty.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 3
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