FOR THINKING CAPS.
* A surveyor who was planning a solid road through a swamp was testing the depth of water and mud with an eighteen-feet pole. “How deep is the. mud?” asked a bystander. “Well, replied the surveyor, “my pole is twice as deep in water as in mud and twice as much above both as in water and mud together.” How deep was the mud? __.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 26
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66FOR THINKING CAPS. Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 26
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