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leap, though his limbs shall be perfectly free. If the party
endeavour in vain to guess how you can do it, and gives
permission for you to try, then desire him to button his
coat and close his eyes, endeavour to divert his attention
while with a piece of chalk you draw a circle round his
waist, and then tell him to jump out of it!

 

AN ARITHMETICAL PUZZLE.
Taxer Nine from Six, and Ten from Nine, then take
Fifty from Forty, you will find half a dozen left.
Sonurion.

From SIX take IX and |

will
remain.

» IX take X and
7 XL take L and X
ANOTHER.
ArnranceE Nos. 1 to 9, so as to give the same product,
whether counted horizontally, diagonally, or perpendi-
cularly. It is to be done as follows:

ce ee
1S V9
6 9 2

The product will ke found every way to be fifteen.

END OF MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTS,