Show tiro old puzzles lee here aro are a comple of old puzzle dressed up in new clothes I 1 see a monkey in a tree he sect soot me and gets behind the trunk of a tree I 1 start to go around him and he keeps going around as I 1 do keeping the trunk of tho the tree behind him and me I 1 reached tho the place I 1 started from with the monkey still opposite me anthe on the tree now having boon been around tho the tree have I 1 also been around tho the monkey A boston woman is quoted as sayin ing 1 I tried it on my husband huband I 1 had him for tho the monkey and I 1 took a whiskbroom whisk broom and went around him brushing his clothes ho he kept turning around ojust ne as I 1 did and when I 1 had been clear around I 1 had brushed only ono one side of him now all the professors of harvard university convince mo me that I 1 had been around that man neither hod had the man been around the monkey in the tree what do you think six men throe blacks and three whites wished to cross a river their boat could only take two at a time As the black men are savages there must not bo be more of their number than whites left on either aide side of the river at any time how is the difficulty got over draughtboard draught board men can be used to represent blacks and whites solution A black and white cross flint first the white takes back tho the bont two blacks next cross one returns with the boat then two whites cross and a black and white return with the boat two whites then cross and send the black back with tho boat when the other two are brought over in turn |