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Show Wit Sharpeners ft0? 'THIMS 1 MisreR? .S M,. j 1. How many minutes will u take to cut up a piece of cloth Id yards long, one yard being sheared off every minute? 2. A snail climbing up a posi 10 feet high goes up two feei every day but slips down one foo' every night. How many days wil it take him to reach the top? 3. If a boy weighs 50 pound-plus pound-plus half his own weight. ho much does he weigh? 4. A man has a window om-yard om-yard high and one yard wide He-quiring He-quiring more light, he enlarges the window to twice its former size yet the window is still only one yard high and one yard wide. How did he do it? 5'. A man walks around a pole on top of which is a monkey. As the man moves the monkey turns on top of the pole so as to always keep face to face with the man. When the man has gone around the pole, has he, or has he not. gone around the monkey? ANSWERS 1. Nine minutes. Try it if you like. 2. Nine days. The ninth day the snail goes the last two feet to the top of the pole and stays there. 3. One hundred pounds. Think it over. 4. The window was diamond-shaped diamond-shaped at first, and the man made it a square window. 5. Don't be a monkey. Certainly Cer-tainly he has gone around the beast. |