PROBLEM.
If a herring and a half cost three cents, how many will you get for a dollar?
To ladies, who as a general rule have not the organ of calculation very largely developed, this will usually prove a poser. As the problem is to be solved by patience and study, we will leave them to do it, or give it up, and proceed to the next
PROBLEM.
A gentleman sent his servant with a present of nine ducks in a box, upon which was the following direction:—
"To Alderman Gobble with IX. ducks."
The servant, who had more ingenuity than honesty, purloined three of the ducks, and contrived it so that the number contained in the box corresponded with that upon the direction. As he neither erased any word or letter, nor substituted a new direction, how did he so alter it as to correspond with the contents of the box?
The dishonest but ingenious servant simply placed the letter S before the two Roman numerals, IX. The direction then read thus:
"To Alderman Gobble, with SIX ducks."