THE CELLARMAN.
A cellarman had two thirty-two quart vessels, one containing sixteen quarts of o.p. brandy, the other.,* similar quantity of pure distilled water. He poured two quarts of the brandy into the vessel containing the water, and shook the jar so that the contents were thoroughly mixed. He then poured two quarts of the mixture into the vessel which contained the pure brandy, both jars then holding equal- quantities of liquid as before/ viz., sixteen quarts each, and these had to stand for fortyeight hours undisturbed before the next operation. The cellarman, after labelling the original water jar "16 gallons in proportion of 8 water to 1 brandy," then proceeded to make a calculation concerning the proportions of the other, when the proprietor came down, and after telling the cellarman something the latter placed a correct label on the second jar. What was it?
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 20
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