How can I relay these eight pieces, without turning or breaking them, on a piece of level soil, so that they enclose three flower-beds of similar size?

[Solution]

AN ANAGRAM EPITAPH

This was engraved on a slate monument in memory of Marya Arundell, in Duloe, Cornwall, June 8, 1629:—

MARYA ARUNDELL—MAN A DRY LAUREL

Man to the marigold compared may be,
Man may be likened to the laurel tree.
Both feede the eye, both please the optic sense,
Both soon decay, both suddenly fleete hence.
What then infer you from her name but this,
Man fades away, man a dry laurel is!

No. LI.—A READY RECKONER

Two schoolboys, looking into a small water-butt after a heavy rain, could not agree as to whether it was quite half full.

They appealed to the gardener, as there were no means of measurement at hand, and he, being a shrewd, practical man, was able to decide the point. How did he do this?