[201.] Place 17 little sticks—matches, for instance—making six equal squares, as in the margin, then remove five sticks and leave three perfect squares of the same size.
FOR THE JEWELLER.
[202.] How much gold of 21 and 23 carats must be mixed with 30 oz of 20 carats, so that the mixture may be 22 carats?
LONDON GRAMMAR.
Three cockneys, being out one evening in a dense fog, came up to a building that they thus described. The first said, “There’s a nouse.” “No,” said the second, “It’s a nut.” The third exclaimed “You’re both wrong; it’s a nin!”
[203.] A draper sold 12 yards of cloth at 20s. per yard, and lost 10 per cent. What was the prime cost?