13. A NICE CALCULATION
My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is half of them, and my third is half. What am I?
14. FOR THE CHILDREN
A London firm, having sent an order by telegram to a manufacturer in Paris for 480 sets of Diabolo, received to their amazement a huge consignment of 6336 sets. How did this mistake arise?
15. A WINTER VALENTINE
Thy heart is like some icy lake
On whose cold brink I stand;
On my sore plight sweet pity take,
And lead me by the hand.
Then buckle on my spirit’s skate
Where all the ice is thin,
That it may break beneath my weight,
And let a lover in!