How many distinct readings of these four words can you find, taking their letters in any “go as you please” direction, without jumping over any letter?
4. A CROSS PURPOSE
Can our readers rearrange these letters in the form of a similar cross, so that they form two words familiar to us all?
| A | ||||||
| A | ||||||
| E | ||||||
| D | N | R | E | G | D | N |
| I | ||||||
| T | ||||||
| V | ||||||
| S | ||||||
One of the letters, to be placed where the lower E now stands, is common to both words.
5.
“Take this sovereign, my boy,” said a man to his son who had a turn for arithmetic, “and buy for yourself and for your three sisters the best present possible for each, of different values, expending in each case an aliquot part of the pound, that is to say, a fraction of it whose numerator is one. If there is any change you can give it to the Fresh Air Fund.” How was this commission carried out?