IN A HURRY.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 31

IN A HURRY.

A, B, C, and D wished to be conveyed from a given spot to the nearest railway station as quickly as was possible by the only available conveyance at hand, which was a motor-car, the distance being exactly sixteen miles. The car^Tiowever, would only hold two persons in addition to tho driver, and it was necessary for all of them to arrive at the station in time to catch their train to_ the city, it being impossible ia the time for tho car with its maximum speed of twenty miles per hour to make the double trip from where the party were stationed. It so /happened, however,' that the whole four arrived at the railway at precisely the same time, by "alternately walking and using the car .to its utmost carrying capacity of two 'passengers plus the driver. How was-this accomplished within the two hours--- the walkers maintained a rate of "four Smiles an hour and the car of twenty ihiles per hour uniformly throughout, ignoring, of course, tho few* seconds delay in changing passenger)*';