92.
If in a calm the tip of a rush is 9 inches above the surface of a lake, and as the wind rises it is gradually blown aslant, until at the distance of a yard it is submerged, it is growing in water that is 5 feet 71⁄2 inches deep.
93.
Aminta was eighteen.
94.
When Dick took a quarter of the bag of nuts, and gave the one over to the parrot, and Tom and Jack and Harry dealt in the same way with the remainders in their turns, each finding a nut over from the reduced shares for the bird, and one was again over when they divided the final remainder equally, there were, at the lowest estimate, 1021 nuts in the bag.