A TRICK TO TRY.
'.Here's a. way you can catch your cHum. Just, try it. Ask him if he •would rather have twice five and ■twenty oranges or twice twenty-five. .Hjß will probably say that he doesn't mind : a bit because the one seems pretty much the same as the other to him. But he is wrong. You see, twice twenty-five is fifty, but twice five and twenty is only thirty. ..When you've explained this you'd better not wait while he thinks it out.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 14
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84A TRICK TO TRY. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 14
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