[192.] A son asked his father how old he was, and received the following answer: “Your age is now one quarter of mine, but five years ago it was only one-fifth.” How old is the father?
[193.] Place three sixes together so as to make seven.
THE PASSING TRAINS PUZZLE.
[194.] If through passenger trains running to and from New York and San Francisco daily start at the same hour from each place (difference of longitude not being considered) and take the same time—seven days—for the trip, how many such trains coming in an opposite direction will a train leaving New York meet before it arrives at San Francisco?
THE SCHOOL-TEACHER “CAUGHT.”
Two of our Public Schools were engaged playing a football match one afternoon. The head master of one of them had generously given the boys a half-holiday; but the gentleman who held the same capacity in the other school, not being an ardent admirer of Australia’s national game, refused to do so. When school assembled in the afternoon, a boy volunteered to ask the master for the desired holiday. When the question was put, he firmly answered, “No, no!” whereupon the bright youth called out: “Hurrah! we have our holiday; two negatives make an affirmative.” The teacher was so pleased at the boy’s sharpness that he dismissed the school right away.