At a bazaar stall, where twenty-seven articles are exposed for sale, a purchaser may buy one thing or more, and the number of choices open to him is one less than the continued product of twenty-seven twos, or 134217727.

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VERY PERSONAL

168. When Nellie’s father said:—

I was twice as old as you are
The day that you were born.
You will be just what I was then
When fourteen years are gone—

he was 42, and she was 14.

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WORD AND LETTER PUZZLES

1.

The word square is completed thus:—