The cobbler always enjoyed telling the story, though it was against himself, and often had to answer inquiries about Nipper's health.
THE GREAT PEACH PUZZLE.[3]
Jack, Tom, and Ned sold peaches on the same day at precisely the same rate, and each received the same amount of money; but Tom sold three times and Ned five times as many as Jack. The reason of this was that peaches rose immensely in the course of the day, and Jack had kept the larger portion of his until the afternoon. As each boy sold at the same morning and afternoon market values, the puzzle is to find out what those rates were, how much money each boy received, and how many peaches each boy sold.
"LOOK OUT FOR THE CARS!"
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The circumstances attending the rescue from drowning of the baby Harry Lee by Miss Edith Baxter, aged twelve, in front of the Avon Beach Hotel, at Bath, Long Island, have already been related in the Post-office Box of Young People, No. 149.
[2] Begun in No. 146, Harper's Young People.