Puzzling Advice.—
If your grate be (great B) empty, put coal on.
When your grate is (great IS) full, stop putting coal on.
The Miser’s Ruse.—The counting, which stopped at every seventh man, was made to begin at the sixth from the landlord, who sat at the end of the table.
Wolf, Goat, and Cabbages.—First he takes over the goat; he then returns and takes the wolf; he leaves the wolf on the other side, and brings back the goat; he now takes over the cabbages, and comes back once more to fetch the goat. Thus the wolf will never be left with the goat, nor the goat with the cabbages.
A Problem for Surveyors.
Another Problem for Surveyors.