A SCORE AND ONE FAIR MAIDS.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 29

A SCORE AND ONE FAIR MAIDS.

Twenty-one fair maids, "grown ups" down to little "tots," sat in a row to hear one of the , travelled "Girl Guides'' relating her experiences, and strange to say that, although most of the older ones all looked tho same age, one of them, the eleventh counting from either end, admitted that she was older than any of the others. On her left-hand side the one beside her was two years younger, and right down to her end each succeeding girl was two years younger than her neighbour on the right. The same regularity existed in the row on the eldest maid's right hand side, but the ages between them was uniformly one year only, that is commencing with the eldest's righthand neighbour (who was a year younger) right down to the end of that side each, succeeding girl was a year older than her right hand neighbour. Now if the youngest of the whole party of twenty-one is exactly one-third the age of the eighth youngest, there being two maids of the latter ago in the group, can the reader say what their respective ages are, the total years of the twenty-one being three hundred and eighty-one? The reader may find it helpful to know that excluding the eldest, one-half of the group are twins.