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14 2. What is the difference between twice twenty-five, and, twice five and twenty?

3. If you get a herring and a-half for three halfpence, how many can you buy for elevenpence?

4. A and B bet as to which could eat most eggs. A ate ninety-nine, B ate one hundred and won. How many did B eat more than A?

5. What is the difference between half-a-dozen dozen, and six dozen dozen?

6. Think on any number you please unknown to me, double it; add 20 to it; take away half of the whole amount; subtract now the figure you thought on from it, and the remainder is 10.

7. What is the two-thirds of three-fourths of elevenpence- halfpenny?

8. Make nine less by adding to it.

9. Part of a foot with judgment transpose,

And the answer you'll find just under your nose.

10. Four things there are all of a height,

One is crooked, the rest are straight,

Take three away, and then you'll find

Exactly ten remain behind.

11. A person being asked how much money he had, replied, "I had as much again, half as much again, and half-a-crown, I should then have a pound." How much had he?

12. A servant went to market with orders to buy twenty fowls for 20d. She did so, and brought home pigeons at 4d., larks at d., and sparrows at d. each. How many were there of each sort?

13. "My purse and money,” said Dick to Harry, "are worth 12s. 8d., but the money is worth seven times the purse." What did the purse contain?

14. A man agrees for twelve peaches, at á farthing for the first, a halfpenny for the second, and so on till the last. What did they cost him?

15. Peculiarities of the Figure 9.-Multiplied by any figure you please, the figures of the product added together will