275.275. Why is the butcher’s dog in the parlor like your mother receiving strange company?
275.
275. Why is the butcher’s dog in the parlor like your mother receiving strange company?
276. Why should a hound never be admitted into the house?
277. Why is your favorite puppy like a doll?
278. How can a person live eighty years, and see only twenty birthdays?
279. What is the difference between twenty four quart bottles, and four and twenty quart bottles?
280. How will you arrange four 9’s so as to make one hundred?
281.
Amid the serpent race is oneThat earth did never bear;In speed and fury there be noneThat can with it compare.With fearful hiss—its prey to grasp—It darts its dazzling course,And locks in one destroying claspThe horseman and the horse.It loves the loftiest heights to haunt—No bolt its prey secures;In vain its mail may valor vaunt,For steel its fury lures!As slightest straw whirled by the wind,It snaps the starkest tree;It can the might of metal grind,How hard soe’er it be!Yet ne’er but once the monster triesThe prey it threats to gain:In its own wrath consumed it dies,And while it slays is slain.
Amid the serpent race is oneThat earth did never bear;In speed and fury there be noneThat can with it compare.With fearful hiss—its prey to grasp—It darts its dazzling course,And locks in one destroying claspThe horseman and the horse.It loves the loftiest heights to haunt—No bolt its prey secures;In vain its mail may valor vaunt,For steel its fury lures!As slightest straw whirled by the wind,It snaps the starkest tree;It can the might of metal grind,How hard soe’er it be!Yet ne’er but once the monster triesThe prey it threats to gain:In its own wrath consumed it dies,And while it slays is slain.
Amid the serpent race is one
That earth did never bear;
In speed and fury there be none
That can with it compare.
With fearful hiss—its prey to grasp—
It darts its dazzling course,
And locks in one destroying clasp
The horseman and the horse.
It loves the loftiest heights to haunt—
No bolt its prey secures;
In vain its mail may valor vaunt,
For steel its fury lures!
As slightest straw whirled by the wind,
It snaps the starkest tree;
It can the might of metal grind,
How hard soe’er it be!
Yet ne’er but once the monster tries
The prey it threats to gain:
In its own wrath consumed it dies,
And while it slays is slain.
282. A went to a shoemaker, B, and ordered a pair of boots. At the time appointed for their completion, A called for his boots. The price was $5. A gave B a 20 dollar note, which, not being able to change, he went to C, who gave him four $5 notes. B gave A three of the notes, and kept one. The next day C came to B and told him his $20 note was a counterfeit. B gave C four $5 notes, three of which he borrowed from D. How much did B lose by the operation?