22.

This is the magic square arrangement, so contrived that the products of the rows, columns, and diagonals are all 1,000.

50120
41025
51002

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23.

If seven boys caught four crabs in the rock-pools at Beachy Head in six days, the twenty-one boys who searched under the seaweed and only caught one crab with the same rate of success were only at work for half a day.

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24.

A watch could be set of a different trio from a company of fifteen soldiers for 455 nights, and one of them, John Pipeclay, could be included ninety-one times.

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