A CAT PUZZLE.
“ Johx take this slate, you rascal. and work out this sum. If a cat falls into a well sixty feet deep, and crawls up six feet each day, falling back eight feet every night, how much time would the eat require to get out. of the well?” John set to ciphering, and covered both sides of his slate with figures; then placing one edge of the slate on his knees, and resting his chin on the other, he gazed into vacancy. “ Well, John, how about the eat?” “ Father, I ain’t got any more room on the slate, but if I had another square, I’d have that cat in h—l in three minutes.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1023, 14 January 1882, Page 4
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115A CAT PUZZLE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1023, 14 January 1882, Page 4
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