“Whose beer did you say this was?”
“Perkins’s,” emphatically replied the barmaid.
The contents of the glass was exhausted, as also the vocabulary of praise, and it only remained for the appreciative gentleman to say, as he wiped his mouth and went towards the door:—
“Perkins’s beer, is it! I know Perkins very well; I shall see him soon, and will settle with him for three long glasses of his incomparable brew. Good morning.”
A Conspiracy.
[188.] Three gentlemen are going over a ferry with their three servants, who conspire to rob them if they can get one gentleman to two of them, or two to three, on either side of the ferry. They have a boat that will only carry two at once, and either a gentleman or a servant must bring back the boat each time a cargo of them goes over. How can the gentlemen get over with all their servants so as to avoid an attack?
[189.] Find two numbers whose product is equal to the difference of their squares, and the sum of their squares equal to the difference of their cubes?