The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-09
Not So Easy as it Looked.

Not So Easy as it Looked,
Said Ted to Tim as the twins sat up.
on opposite arms of Uncle Rob's arm.
chair
'"Tim, we're visitors.'
Eyes, we're visitors, Uncle Rob-"
echoed Tim.
''Ah!' exclaimed Uncle Rob.
Its very rainy day, Tim," went on
Ted.
Every rainy, indeed, Uncle Rob-" re-
iterated Tim.
'And what follows?' calmly inquired
Uncle Rob. His eyes twinkled and he
v ent on reading
You should entertain us, Uncle Rob-"
answered Ted, decidedly.
That's what mamma always says
when we have company" finished Tim
triumphantly.
"We]l," calculated Uncle ROD. He
put down bis paper suddenly. 'I'n en-
tertain you! How many days would it
take to cut up a piece of cloth fifty
yards long, if yard was cut off each
day?"
"Fifty!' shouted Ted, without think
ing minute. Pshaw! Uncle Rob, don't
ask us such foolish, easy puzzles. They
are as old-oM-old as the hills!'
Seems to me-" retorted Uncle Rob,
IF they are old, they are not so Won
derfully easy as you think. You're
wrong, Ted. You've got to give me a
better answer, or I won't think much
of your smartness. Now, here's an
other awfully easy one-'as old as the
hills, too. But it has puzzled many a
small boy before you. If a goose
weighs ten pounds and half it's own
weight, what is the weight of the
goose?"
Tim was just going to call out, eff
teen pounds" But Uncle Rob's solemn
expression disconnected him. Instead
he pursed up his mouth and looked at
Ted, and Ted wrinkled his brows and
looked at Tim.
doesn't sound hard,'' family from
Tim
''It's very easy, indeed replied Uncle
Rob. And here's one more Of the same
sort A snail climbing post twenty
feet high ascends five feet every day,
and slips back four feet every night
How long will it take him to reach the
top?"
"A snail?' sighed Ted, thoughtfully.
"Yes a snail,'' repeated Uncle Rob-
"Seems as if he only got up one foot
each day-at that rate,' considered
Tim.
80 he didr'
And the post was twenty feet high?'
eyes, Ted, twenty feet''
''Well, then," pursued Tim, "it must
have been twen-enty-''
Uncle Rob laughed. "Now, I'll tell
you what I'll do You boys each take
a pencil and paper, if you find them
necessary, and work out those three
puzzles. And when you each bring me
the right answer we'n go to the circus
and rest our brains for the afternoon" :"
Then Uncle Rob went back to his
paper, and Ted and Tim slipped softly
down from the arms of his chair, and
went to the drawer of the library ta-
BILE to hunt for lead-pencils. -Harpers
Young People.
Some Remarks About Napoleon.
YES" said Old Jack, in response to
Tommy's question-"yes, I know con-
siderabal bout Napoleon Bonyparte,
though never knowed him personally.
He was a great man though. The way
he useter get in muses. with everybody
an come out on top was a caution.
I recollec, like as though it was on'y
yesterday, when the story came bout
how Brutus an those fellers killed him
there in the Senate House. I says to
my wife I don't believe it's him they
killed, an by Joe! later on. it turned
out just as T said. The feller they kill
ed was named Julyus Caesar, and not
Napoleon Bonyparte at all-which just
shows the differences tween the two
men, though there be folks as crack
Caesar up for bcin' q very much bigger
man than Napoleon. Nevertheless, my
pint remains. Them fellers succeeded
in killin' Caesar, an Napoleon wasn't
killed at all, which it takes a mighty
smart soldier not to be. What? Yes,
he did get licked oncet up at place
named Waterloo, but he deserved what
he got for bein' careless. Then he made
another mistake goin' to Moscow out in
ROCsher. He'd never heard O. blizzids
an snowballs, an so O. course he sort
O. thought RoOsher was nothin' but
summer resort like France, an, by JOG.
when he got there it was so cold he had
to set the town afre to keep him an
his army from freezin' Nevertheless,
he was a great man, an 'twouldn't
s'prise me to hear at any minnit that
he'd come up ag'in an walloped Eu-
rope oncet more. Eh? What's that you
say? He's dead? Why, Tommie, ye sur
prise me. Well, well, well. Too bad.
He was great man.'-HarDer's Young
People.