141.
If in London a new head to a golf club costs four times as much as a new leather face, while at St Andrews it costs five times as much, and if the leather face costs twice as much in London as in St Andrews, and if, including a shilling paid for a ball, the charges in London were twice as much as they would have been at St Andrews, the London cost of a new head is four shillings, and of a leather face a shilling.
142.
When two children were asked to give the total number of sheep and cattle in a pasture, from the number of each sort, and one by subtraction answered 10, while the other arrived at 11,900 by multiplication, the true numbers were 170 sheep, 70 cattle, 240 in all.
143.
If a man picks up one by one fifty-two stones, placed at such intervals on a straight road that the second is a yard from the first, the third 3 yards from the second, and so on with intervals increasing each time by 2 yards, and bring them all to a basket placed at the first stone, he has to travel about 52 miles, or, to be quite exact, 51 miles, 1292 yards.