A CONUNDRUM
Jones: Are yon good at mental arithmetic, Brown ? Brown: Pretty fair. Jones; Well, listen to this; A train starts on a journey with seventy passengers on board. At the first stop it drops ten and picks up fifteen. Have you got that ? Brown (calculating); Yes; seventy-five. Jones: At the next stop it drops twenty-five and picks up eleven. Shortly after it stops and picks up seventeen passengers and drops nine. Got that ? Brown; Yes. Well? Jones (making for the door) : What was the name of the engine-driver?
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New Zealand Tablet, 14 September 1911, Page 1830
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89A CONUNDRUM New Zealand Tablet, 14 September 1911, Page 1830
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