Children's Corner

Hutt News, Volume 11, Issue 11, 9 August 1928, Page 6

Children's Corner

Answers to Last Week's Puzzles. 1. The puzzle can be solved in 23 moves. The blocks are; moved in the following order: — A, B,F, E, C, A, B, F, E, C, A, D, H, G, A, B, D, H, G, D, E. JP. 2. The only answer is that there were 5 men, 25 women, arid 70 children. There were thus 5 times as many women as men, and as the men would altogether receive 15 bushels, the women 50 bushels, and the.children 35_ bushels, exactly 100 bushels would be distributed. -■■."■ ' 3. The innkeeper explained that a bung that has just been made fast in a barrel is like one that is just falling out because one is *' in secure" and the other me is also "insecure. " With regard to the puzzle of the three-pint and the five-pint measures, the innkeeper first filled the 3 pint jug and then the 5 pink one, and allowed the rest of the ale in the barrel to run to waste. He then closed the. tap and emptied the 3 pint jug into the barrel, filled the 3 pint from the .5 pint jug, emptied the 3 pint into the barrel, transferred the two pints from the 5 pint jug to the 3 pint, and filled the 5 pint from the barrel, leaving one pint in this receptacle; He then filled the 3 pint from the 5 pint, gave the company the contents of the 3 pints, filled the 3 pint from the 5 pint, leaving one pint in the 5 pint, drank the contents of the 3 pint, and finally drew off the contents of the barrel (one pint) into the 3 pint, thus being left with one ,pint in each jug. 4. Three ducks. ~ 5. Both the same, each taking an average of one wicket for 3 runs. Adams 48 wickets for 144 runs, Burns 43 wickets for 129 runs. This Week's Puzzles. 1. Here ai*e a few well-known quotations. Can you follow the instructions after them? (a). "What begins with "dearly beloved" and.ends with" '^amazement'"? (b). I'm the cook and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo 'sum tight, and the midship mite, - And the crew of the captain's gig-" . How did this happer? (c). "It frequently breakfasts at 5 o'clock tea, and dines- —" When? (d). What do you do after packing up your troubles in your old kit bag1? (c). What car requires a monkey to follow after it to pick up the nuts? 2. How long wiould it take a tailor to divide 20 yards of cloth into yard j lengths if he cut off a yard a second? 3. When Joyce asked her Dad what his age was (she was rather an inquisitive young lady), he replied: "When you were born, I was twice as old as you are now, and in fourteen years' time, you will be as old as I was then." How old is Dad, and how old is" Joyce? 4. A goa.t is placed in a meadow that is in shape an exact equilateral triangle, and in area exactly half an acre. The goat is tethered to a post at one corner of the meadow. What should be the length of the tether (to the nearest inch) so that the goat can eat exactly half the grass in the meadow?

Above, in the illustration, you seenine numbered boxes, single boxes on the outside, then a pair,, then three. Now you will see that if you multiply the pair on the left hand side by the single on the same side, the result comes to the number represented by the three boxes in the middle, i.e., 7 times 28 is 196. But when you try the same thing with the boxes on the other side, you find that they do not multiply to 196. The puzflzle is to re-arrange the nine boxes in the same formation ;so that each single box on the outside ] i shall be multiplied by its respective pair to give the number by the three boxes in the centre, and the condition is given that as few boxes as . possible shall be moved. V ««Tommy at Schoo 1." "Tommy! Tommy! do you heaT? Get up, it's nearly eight. You young scamp, yet up! ''- These words, awakening the echoes of the house, also woke Toaamy Pereival i'rom a deep and sooth-

ing slumber. As a matter of fact he hrad been dreaming that he had. cbme in possession of atuck-shop of his own, however, his slumbers were rudely, broken. . -.-._•; :.'■' " "Oh, dear!" nioaned Tommy," another day of school, ' prolonged torture' I call it." H^ made his way , down stairs in his shirt-sleeves and sat down to Breakfast. He eventually started eating something after breaking a cup, and "spilling some cocoa over the new cloth. He was just feeling as though he could still cat for another half hour or sa when he happened to. glance at the cuckoo clock. ... / "Holy smoke!" he muttered, '/five minutes to nine. Help, where ?s my school bag? Mum, is my lunch cut? Heavens! I've forgotten to do my homo work." , .--.' At length, finding his school bag in the wood shed, and clutching his lunch in one hand he started off to "Feildsbury School,'' which he attended daily. Arriving at school, he found he was ten; minutes late; he walked to his desk and sat down. ,/. a ""''Oh, said Mr. Smythe, B.A, "you've really come, have you? Why are you late? The clock was slow, I suppose!." he said sarcastically.' '/You may do' a sum after school. Don't tell me it's your sister's- wedding; if you had gone to every wedding your sisters have hacL you must own about thirty sisters," Deeming it wise to keep his mouth, shut, Tommy said nothing, and glumly got out his lesson books. | Oh, the agonies of that morning! He made a mess of history, surprising Mr. Smythe with the announcement that "William Caxton invented gun-powder, and tried to blow King John up, whilst hre was signing the '' Treaty of Waitangi." Not content with, this he said the "Battle of Trafalgar" was fought in 1899, Wolf losing his life-in the battle, .by an arrow fired by a South Sea Islander. The trouble- was that he had his mind on something else and but lately he had been reading a most bloodcurdling. South Sea story dealing with gun-powder plots, fighting, murdering, smuggling, and heaven knows what else. He had got some of these 'facts mixed somewhat with his history. Pool 1 Tommy! Trust him . By the time lunch-time came, he had himself booked for about two hours after school, with lines. -He was in anything but a pleasant mood_ as can be imagined. That afternoon they had Composition, the subject being "Lessons. '' This is what Tommy wrote. (I amj sorry to say he didn't think what he wrote though):—"Lessons.— Don't we all love lessons. (If he had put what he meant he would' have put 'How we all loathe lessons.') Lessons keep us busy (too damn busy thought Tommy.) Learning was first taught in England by monkeys (I mean monks). This was as far, as he got, the papers were collected before he could do any more. He got another twenty lines for writing what he didn't mean. In saying his poetry the class nearly went into hysterics. This is how he said ','The Charge of the Light Brigade. " "Guns to the left of them, , ' Cannons to the right. Onwards they thundered through the pitch dark night. ■ - . "Volleyed and thundered, Onwards they plundered, Charge the guns was said, x , Onwards, - barged the six hundred. Thus ended the day; Tommy, surrounded by lines, chewing pen, is seen a woeful figure in a. small desk, by the last boy leaving school. Finis.