: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book by Pearson A Cyril Arthur Cyril - Charades; Puzzles; Picture puzzles

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ft. This very curious effect will well repay a little patience, if it is not realised at once.

She loses her head when she joins the brides, He joins them after tea; But both are swept by ruthless tides Away on the western sea.

I have 91 bananas on my barrow, of two qualities; some I sell at four a penny, and the better sort at three a penny. If I had sold them in mixed lots at seven for twopence, I should have made a penny more. How many were there of each quality?

The Puzzle Problem--

A passenger in a first-class railway carriage notices that the top of a factory window due S.W. of him coincides with a mark on the carriage window, and does not move from it while the train is running five and a half miles.

At the end of that distance the compass bearing of the chimney is due N.W. How far was the passenger from the chimney when he first noticed it?

is solved by 3?/? miles.

We give a diagram to make the points clear.

As the chimney top does not move from its place on the window, it is clear that the train is running on a segment of a circle having the chimney for its centre. It follows that the observer's distance throughout is equal to the radius of that circle, and the radius of a circle of which the quadrant measures 5?/? miles is 3?/? miles within about 11 ft.

The cross had been taken out from the centre of this flag, and its owner, who had an ingenious turn of mind, found that by cutting what remained into two pieces, and rejoining them, he could make it into a perfect flag without any waste of material.

How did he accomplish this?

Add two more pieces similar in shape and size to that marked A, and one similar to B, C, and D respectively, and then readjust the eleven parts so that they form a perfect square.

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