3. If the secret be not discovered, remove one of the end pieces to the other side, thus you take away the piece from the centre without touching it.
4. One hundred.
5. 792; six dozen dozen being 864, and a half a dozen dozen 72.
| 6. | Four merry fiddlers played all night To many a dancing ninny; And the next morning went away, And each received a guinea. |
| 7. | Persevere ye perfect men, Ever keep these precepts ten. |
It was discovered that by using the vowel E this couplet was formed.
8. Request the person to give you all the cards containing the number he has fixed upon, and then add all the right hand upper corner figures together, which will give the correct answer. For example: suppose 10 is the number thought of, the cards with 2 and 8 in the corners will be given, which makes the answer 10.
9. Place 4 on 7, 6 on 2, 1 on 3, and 8 on 5, or 5 on 2, 3 on 7, 8 on 6, 4 on 1, &c.
10. The clerk arranged them thus:
