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 18 A Whetſtone for Dull Wits.

Here follows ſeveral Comical Queſtions.

QUESTION I.

IF ſix ſhillings and a farthing ſhall be paid by a ſelect number of men, each paving an equal ſhare, how many ſhall there needs be to diſcharge the ſame?

Anſwer. Seventeen, each paying four pence farthing.

Q. 2. How may a ſtraw be laid upon the ground, that it may not be jumped over?-They to whom you propoſe this queſtion, will think it eaſy to be done: If it ſhall come to a wager, lay your ſtraw cloſe to the wall on the ground, and they will ſoon ſee it impoſſible to be done. So yielding the wager loſt, it may occaſion ſome laughter.

Q3. If a Butcher ſends his ſervant to market, and orders him, with twenty shillings, to buy twenty head of ſmall castle of ſeveral prices; that is to far, Weathers at four ſhillings a piece, Ewes at twelve-pence, and Lambs at a groat; and to lay out all the twenty ſhillings, and to have twenty head, neither more nor leſs, how many