My whole was Frank
Of royal rank.

[Solution]

No. XXXV.—ON A BLACKBOARD

To test the powers of his young pupils, Dr Puzzlewitz set the following little problem on his blackboard:—

A-B=4
A÷B=4

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What are the values of A and of B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting B from A?

[Solution]

20. RECAST

How great in olden days my power!
Oft have I saved a castle tower
From war’s invading tide.
Transpose me, and how great my fall!
I am then the smallest of the small,
That nothing can divide.