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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 26

WAKE FROM

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WORD CHANGE.

In the lines given below the spaces are to be filled with a series of words, each of which differs from tiic one before it by one letter, making tho last word quite unlike tJie first and with an entirely different meaning. Do you bid me write a poem, In the album that is yours. With the imagination 'that is mine, ■ You have only got to say, I do it any day, When I can' think of something really fine. ' Of course there are difficulties, Which block me like a.-—-, Unkindly perpendicular, , And-formidably , But I'll never know defeat, And my shall bo complete, Duly making both ends meet, Neither nor indiscreet. So I'm glad to write' a poem,' In the album that is yours,' ' With the .widely-straying faucy that is mine. ...... AGENT'S COMMISSION. The representative'of a firm of stock and station agents, sold a few' sheep for a farmer. There, were 421 for which he obtained a certain price per. head, and 30 for which a price 1 shilling and 8 pence less- was obtained. A neighbour of this farmer at once offered to sell the, same number of. sheep, if the same prices could be obtained. This sale was also managed successfully, and 48 were sold, at the higher, price and 24-at the lower price. The commission on the second sale was. due pound eighteen shillings, and that on the first sale was.only throe pence less. What rato per cent, docs this firm charge as commission? .... THE DAILY PAPER. Three men, Archie, Bill, ■ and Cliff,' livo together in a hut.; The main road passes within a quarter of a mile of this hut, and their newspaper is thrown off by one of the buses at the nearest point. These three men take turns at going down :to fetch, the paper, and they have-been amusing themselves by keeping a record of the time each man requires. The average times of the three are to one another in the ratios of 7, 8, and 9. One man's average is 8 minutes 24 seconds. Yesterday the man who fetched the paper took S seconds more'than his own average time, with the result that his time on this trip was exactly two minutes more than tho average time of one of the

other men. How long do these men usually take to fetch the paper' A SCHOOLMASTER'S MISTAKE. A schoolmaster was instructing his class in the multiplication -of two figures by two figures. In writing rather hurriedly on the board a sum to be worked by his pupils, and .copying from an untidy notebook he made two errors, and did not notice them until ho found that the boys made the product 102 more than ho expected. His first error was in reversing the two figures which formed the multiplicand, and the other was a mistake of 12 in the amount of the multiplier. The two- figures, which ho misplaced, differed, by 2. Can readers discover what was the sum he intended to write, and what he actually wrote. ARMCHAIR PROBLEMS. ]ii a football match each side scored four, tries, aiid the winners beat the others .by six points. At half-time the scores were equal. . The spectators thought the place-kicking rather poor, and- said that more tries should have been converted. What were the scores? A boy went into a small shop in a village to buy some sweets. There were seven different varieties on the counter, and he could not make up his mind which he preferred. The woman in the shop offered to supply any single variety, or a mixture of any two or three up to a mixture of the whole seven. Probably she had no idea as to how many choices she thus offered to her customer, po that readers are invited to enlighten her. A lady wished to purchase some material from a drapery store, but found she was short of cash. She returned on Monday, and found that they had started a sale, and were giving 22-i per cent, discount. Their usual discount for cash is only 5 per cent., and she had saved five shillings and three pence unexpectedly. What was thc:priec of the material before either discount-was computed/ SOLUTIONS. ' Anagram.—-Desired, resided, considered. A Troublesome Purchase.—27 yards

lat 7 pence, 3 at 9 pence, oud 2 at one I shilling.

Gentlemen of Fortune.; —Before the fight there were IG7 men, who had 04,208 sovereigns to 1)0 divided among them.

Sentry Duty.—lt is possible to form nineteen words in the manner described, and this must have been the number of nights. The man, A, was on duty on. seventeen of them. ; .

Substitution.—lS24l is the product of 17, 29, and 37. Therefore, the factors MOL and LS must be either 629 and 2!), or 493 and 37, the third combination is inadmissible. The repetition of the L shows that it is the second of these, and by working out this multiplication, it is seen that the numerals 1 to 9 and 0 are represented by theletters P ALMEBSTO X.

Second-hand Car.—The repairer's statement by itself is not helpful, because it leads to an infinite number of solutions. But as the. date is September 21, Mr, C must be thinking' of. the equinox,, and'remembering the fact that, in round numbers, sunset may be expected about, (j :p,rn.. Therefpre-, h« means 9.0 .miles ,at 18, miles per :hour instead of 15, m.p.h. ~,.....■,■'