How can you pot the spot white with the plain white, using a cue, and without touching, or in any way disturbing, the red ball? There is not room to pass on either side between the red ball and the cushion.
No. LIII.—THE NIMBLE COIN
Prepare a circular band of stiff paper, as is shown in the diagram, and balance it, with a coin on the top, on the lip of a bottle.
How can you most effectively transfer the coin into the bottle?
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AN ENIGMA BY MUTATION
Search high or low, you’d find me where you list;
For not a place without me can exist.
I lose my head, and, seen with shoulders fair,
Become the very fairest of the fair.
Again I lose it, and, like some staunch hound,
The first and best amongst a pack am found.
And if at first both head and tail I lose
I am a portion such as all would choose.