31. A SPELL
Two c’s, an h, an n, a p,
Three a’s, a u, an i, an e,
Tell us what English word are we?
32. JOHNSON’S CAT
Johnson’s cat went up a tree,
Which was sixty feet and three;
Every day she climbed eleven,
Every night she came down seven.
Tell me, if she did not drop,
When her paws would touch the top.
33. THE EXPANDING NINES
Some of us may perhaps remember Titania’s promise to Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
“I have a venturous fairy, that shall seek
The squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.”