HOW MANY APPLES?
GOMK weeks ago there appeared a y puzzle " How many apples did Adam and Kve cat?" The total reached "was "Kve 81 (ate one) and Adam 812-12 oblige Kve, equals 81^)23. A clever reader has sent in the following surprising addition: — Then: Kve 811 herself and Adam 812124-stall Kve (forestall). Kvo 812-1240-f,y (fortify) herself and Adam 8124240-fv his position. Total for Adam and Kve 16,248,480. Adam 8U (ate nought) more, for he couldn't bend, So ho added 40 (.for nought)—" Bo" 21 end Which, with his previous score, gave him 8,124,240, 408021. Where thev reallv finished I cannot toll, For their "figures" like those, began to swell.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)
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HOW MANY APPLES?
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)
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