A PROBLEM.
A school teacher received a note like this:—
"Dear Mam, —Please excuse Johnny today. He will not be at school. He is acting as timekeeper for his father. Last nite you gave him this ixample. If a field is four miles square, how long will it take a man walking three miles an hour to walk IVz times around it. Johnny ain't no man, so we had to send his daddy. He left early this morning, and my husband said he ought to be back late to-night, though it would be hard going. Please make the next problem about ladies, as my husband can't afford to lose a day's work."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 17
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112A PROBLEM. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 17
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