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23 COMICAL QUESTIONS.

IF Six Shillings and a Farthing shall be paid by a select number of men, each paying an equal share, How many shall there uced to be, to discharge the same?

Q2. How may a straw be laid down u on the ground. that it may not be jumped over?-They to whom you put the question, will think it easy to be done If it should come to a wager, lay your straw to a wall upon the ground; and they will soon see it cannot be done. So yielding the wager lost, it may occasion some laughter.

Q3. If a Butcher sends his servant to the market, ant orders him with 20 Shillings, to buy 20 head of small cattle, of several prices, that is to say, Wedders at shillings a piece, Ewes at twelve pen:, nc Lambs at a groat; and to lay out all th 20 shillings, and to have 20 heads, neither more nor, low many of each tind must there be to compl at the aber for the aforesaid money?

Q4 To lay a man's righ hard upon himself where he cannot touch it with his left; wili teem strange to three acquainted with the trick; and when they have tried and find they can easily reach all parts about them, they will be ready to be her in their right hand, and lay it on the back side of their left elbow,