A GOOD CATCH.
This is a good catch. First ask your friend if four from four leaves nothing. He's bound to say, "Why, of course." "Beally," you reply. "Wall, do you know that I can take four from four and leave eight?" "Hell want to know how you man- ! age it, and then you show him. Get a square of paper and show him tho four fourner. Then take up a pp.ir.of. scissors and cut off each of the corners. Then show him tho paper again. "Now there aro eight corners, you point out, and he has to admit that you have managed to take four corners eight.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 132, 15 December 1928, Page 15
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108A GOOD CATCH. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 132, 15 December 1928, Page 15
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