59.
A mountebank at a fair had six dice, each marked only on one face 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, respectively. He offered to return a hundredfold any stake to a player who should turn up all the six marked faces once in twenty throws. How far was this from being a fair offer?
CATS’-MEAT FOR DOGS
60.
If ninety groats for twenty cats
Will furnish three weeks’ fare,
How many hounds for forty pounds,
Less one, may winter there?
Just ninety days and one assume
The winter’s space to be;
And note that what five cats consume
Will serve for dogs but three.
(A groat = 4d.)