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Show PROBLEMS MANY YEARS OLD Children of Today Puzzle Over Them Just as They Did a Thousand Years Ago. When King Alfred the Great was reigning over England, a thousand years ago, school children pondered over problems in arithmetic much as our boys and girls do now. Here are two taken word for word from a lesson book of that day: "The swallow once Invited the snail to dinner. He lived just' one league (three English miles) from the spot, and the snail traveled at the rate of only one Inch a day. How long would it be before he dined?" "An old man met a child. 'Good-day, 'Good-day, my son,' he said. 'May you live as long as you have lived, and as much more, and thrice as much as all this; and if God gives you one year In addition to the others, you will be a century old!' What was that boy's age?" The Comrade. |
