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This Tale originally appeared as a serial in The Monthly Packet, beginning in April, 1880. The writer’s intention was to embody in each Knot (like the medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, conce...

The ruddy glow of sunset was already fading into the sombre shadows of night, when two travellers might have been observed swiftly⁠—at a pace of six miles in the hour⁠—descending the rugged side of a ...

“Let’s ask Balbus about it,” said Hugh. “All right,” said Lambert. “He can guess it,” said Hugh. “Rather,” said Lambert. No more words were needed: the two brothers understood each other perfectly. Ba...

“Well, they call me so because I am a little mad, I suppose,” she said, good-humouredly, in answer to Clara’s cautiously-worded question as to how she came by so strange a nickname. “You see, I never ...

Noonday on the open sea within a few degrees of the Equator is apt to be oppressively warm; and our two travellers were now airily clad in suits of dazzling white linen, having laid aside the chain-ar...

“And what made you choose the first train, Goosey?” said Mad Mathesis, as they got into the cab. “Couldn’t you count better than that?” “I took an extreme case,” was the tearful reply. “Our excellent ...

They landed, and were at once conducted to the Palace. About halfway they were met by the Governor, who welcomed them in English⁠—a great relief to our travellers, whose guide could speak nothing but ...

“Aunt Mattie!” “My child?” “Would you mind writing it down at once? I shall be quite certain to forget it if you don’t!” “My dear, we really must wait till the cab stops. How can I possibly write anyt...

“By Her Radiancy’s express command,” said the Governor, as he conducted the travellers, for the last time, from the Imperial presence, “I shall now have the ecstasy of escorting you as far as the oute...

“It’ll just take one more pebble.” “What ever are you doing with those buckets?” The speakers were Hugh and Lambert. Place, the beach of Little Mendip. Time, 1:30, p.m. Hugh was floating a bucket in a...

“How very, very sad!” exclaimed Clara; and the eyes of the gentle girl filled with tears as she spoke. “Sad⁠—but very curious when you come to look at it arithmetically,” was her aunt’s less romantic ...

Problem.⁠—“Two travellers spend from 3 o’clock till 9 in walking along a level road, up a hill, and home again: their pace on the level being 4 miles an hour, up hill 3, and down hill 6. Find distance...

Problem.⁠—“Two travellers spend from 3 o’clock till 9 in walking along a level road, up a hill, and home again: their pace on the level being 4 miles an hour, up hill 3, and down hill 6. Find distance...

Problem.⁠—“The Governor of Kgovjni wants to give a very small dinner party, and invites his father’s brother-in-law, his brother’s father-in-law, his father-in-law’s brother, and his brother-in-law’s ...

Problem.⁠—“The Governor of Kgovjni wants to give a very small dinner party, and invites his father’s brother-in-law, his brother’s father-in-law, his father-in-law’s brother, and his brother-in-law’s ...

Problem.⁠—“A Square has 20 doors on each side, which contains 21 equal parts. They are numbered all round, beginning at one corner. From which of the four, Nos. 9, 25, 52, 73, is the sum of the distan...

Problem.⁠—(1) “Two travellers, starting at the same time, went opposite ways round a circular railway. Trains start each way every 15 minutes, the easterly ones going round in 3 hours, the westerly in...

Problem.⁠—“There are 5 sacks, of which Nos. 1, 2, weigh 12 lbs.; Nos. 2, 3, 13½ lbs.; Nos. 3, 4, 11½ lbs.; Nos. 4, 5, 8 lbs.; Nos. 1, 3, 5, 16 lbs. Required the weight of each sack.” Answer.⁠—“5½, 6½,...

Problem.⁠—To mark pictures, giving 3 ×’s to 2 or 3, 2 to 4 or 5, and 1 to 9 or 10; also giving 3 ○’s to 1 or 2, 2 to 3 or 4 and 1 to 8 or 9; so as to mark the smallest possible number of pictures, and...

Problem 1.⁠—A and B began the year with only £1,000 apiece. They borrowed nought; they stole nought. On the next New-Year’s Day they had £60,000 between them. How did they do it? Solution.⁠—They went ...

Problem.⁠—Given that one glass of lemonade, 3 sandwiches, and 7 biscuits, cost 1s. 2d.; and that one glass of lemonade, 4 sandwiches, and 10 biscuits, cost 1s. 5d.: find the cost of (1) a glass of lem...

I have received several letters on the subjects of Knots II and VI, which lead me to think some further explanation desirable. In Knot II, I had intended the numbering of the houses to begin at one co...

Problem.⁠—Place twenty-four pigs in four sties so that, as you go round and round, you may always find the number in each sty nearer to ten than the number in the last. Answer.⁠—Place 8 pigs in the fi...

Problem.⁠—Place twenty-four pigs in four sties so that, as you go round and round, you may always find the number in each sty nearer to ten than the number in the last. Answer.⁠—Place 8 pigs in the fi...

Problem.⁠—Omnibuses start from a certain point, both ways, every 15 minutes. A traveller, starting on foot along with one of them, meets one in 12½ minutes: when will he be overtaken by one? Answer.⁠—...

Problem.⁠—Lardner states that a solid, immersed in a fluid, displaces an amount equal to itself in bulk. How can this be true of a small bucket floating in a larger one? Solution.⁠—Lardner means, by “...

Problem.⁠—Lardner states that a solid, immersed in a fluid, displaces an amount equal to itself in bulk. How can this be true of a small bucket floating in a larger one? Solution.⁠—Lardner means, by “...

Problem.⁠—Balbus states that if a certain solid be immersed in a certain vessel of water, the water will rise through a series of distances, two inches, one inch, half an inch, etc., which series has ...

Problem.⁠—An oblong garden, half a yard longer than wide, consists entirely of a gravel-walk, spirally arranged, a yard wide and 3,630 yards long. Find the dimensions of the garden. Answer.⁠—60, 60½. ...

Problem.⁠—If 70 percent have lost an eye, 75 percent an ear, 80 percent an arm, 85 percent a leg: what percentage, at least, must have lost all four? Answer.⁠—Ten. Solution.⁠—(I adopt that of Polar St...

Problem.⁠—If 70 percent have lost an eye, 75 percent an ear, 80 percent an arm, 85 percent a leg: what percentage, at least, must have lost all four? Answer.⁠—Ten. Solution.⁠—(I adopt that of Polar St...

I must postpone, sine die, the geographical problem⁠—partly because I have not yet received the statistics I am hoping for, and partly because I am myself so entirely puzzled by it; and when an examin...

Problem.⁠—“At first, two of the ages are together equal to the third. A few years afterwards, two of them are together double of the third. When the number of years since the first occasion is two-thi...

“Maskee,” in Pigeon-English, means “without.” ↩ Note by the writer.⁠—For the above Essay I am indebted to a dear friend, now deceased. ↩...