340.
340.
Figures, they say, won’t lie; but hereIs something either false or queer.I find that, in my family,One taken from two still leaves me three,And two from two, by the same score,Leaves a remainder of just four.
Figures, they say, won’t lie; but hereIs something either false or queer.I find that, in my family,One taken from two still leaves me three,And two from two, by the same score,Leaves a remainder of just four.
Figures, they say, won’t lie; but here
Is something either false or queer.
I find that, in my family,
One taken from two still leaves me three,
And two from two, by the same score,
Leaves a remainder of just four.
341.
My first is a measure much used in the East,Or a close-covered vehicle drawn by one beast;My second is a prefix—a small preposition—Two thirds of a tavern—a paid politician;My whole, though part of a vessel, has stoodAlone on the prairie, or ’neath the great wood,And often is found, poor, wretched, and mean,The city’s proud palaces squatting between.
My first is a measure much used in the East,Or a close-covered vehicle drawn by one beast;My second is a prefix—a small preposition—Two thirds of a tavern—a paid politician;My whole, though part of a vessel, has stoodAlone on the prairie, or ’neath the great wood,And often is found, poor, wretched, and mean,The city’s proud palaces squatting between.
My first is a measure much used in the East,
Or a close-covered vehicle drawn by one beast;
My second is a prefix—a small preposition—
Two thirds of a tavern—a paid politician;
My whole, though part of a vessel, has stood
Alone on the prairie, or ’neath the great wood,
And often is found, poor, wretched, and mean,
The city’s proud palaces squatting between.
342. Take two numbers, such that the square of the first, plus the square of the second, shall equal 8; while the first, plus the product of the first and second, shall equal 6.
N. B.—If any choose to work this out algebraically, it will be found to be no trifling puzzle. SeeMerry’s Museumfor 1856.
N. B.—If any choose to work this out algebraically, it will be found to be no trifling puzzle. SeeMerry’s Museumfor 1856.