El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
A FEW EASY PROBLEMS.
Selections From PuzzledOm For
BOYS and Girls to Ponder Over.

Boys and Girls to Ponder Over.
In the whole of puzzledom there is a
long list of little problems that are very
simple and yet are so highly amusing
that it NAV be worth while to go back
into this history and for moment re-
call some of the best of them. 1t will
be found that the boy or girl who has
a little fund of these catch questions
will be able to afford considerable
amusement to the playmates and friends
assem- bled at the birthday party of some
much admired little girl friend. The
editor of this page was boy himself
once some years ago, and he knows
from experience how much real fun
can be cleaned from this source. So
it may be we'll to remember some OF
them.
There is 10 boy or girl who does not
know what will be the cost of dozen
and a half behring's if one herring and
half cost cent and half. That
catch question is almost as old as
arithmetic itself. And there is the case
of the frog at the bottom of the well 80
feet deep. It will be remembered that
he jumps up three feet each time and
then falls back two. How many jumps
will it take for him to get out of the
we'll entirely?
A discussion that will be funny can
be,made up on the answer to this ques-
ton. And then the difference between
six dozen dozen and half a dozen
dozen. Of course this is apparent i'm
mediately, but the boy asking the ques-
ton must confuse his listeners by tell
ing them to answer quickly. It is not
always so easy to think correctly in
hurry. All the young folks know that
pound is a pound the world over, and
that the question. (Which is the
heavier, pound of feathers or pound
of lead p is intended to catch only the
unwary, who are likely to hurriedly
answer, "Lead,'' without thinking
that it is pound of lead.
1t was a witty boy who was driving
the ducks home, and who answered the
question as to how many he had by
saying, "When in line, there are two
ducks ahead of duck, two ducks be-
hind a duck and one duck in the mid
die. AS matter of fact. now, how
many ducks did the boy have to drive?
This little query was put by father
to his son, who had asked him how old
he was, Now, son, how old am 1 if
I am now just six times as old as you
are, but in "a years you will be exactly
one-half as old as II" How old was
each?
There are a great number CT these
simple little catch questions which it
is always we'll to have in mind. for they
will surely come in handy some day.
There is, however, one catchy problem
which is not quite. so readily seen
through. It has to deal, with hungry
hunter and willy squirrel. The hunts
man was pretty mad, for he had been
out all that day and seen very little
game of any kind, and had not been
able to shoot any at all. He had had a
few chances at very long range and had
missed all of them and was about TO
turn for home when d frisky little
squirrel whisked out upon his path and
scampered away to the nearest tree be-
fore Mr.. Huntsman could get his gun
to his shoulder.
He followed the wary little busby
tailed fellow and found that he had got
behind the nearest tree. Then he
thought he had him, and here is where
the crafty little chap fooled the hunter,
for as fast as the hunter moved aTound
the tree to get shot so Master Squirrel
moved around the tree. Many times
did the hunter go completely around
the tree, and the squirrel invariably
kept on the opposite side, always keep
ing the tree between himself and the
hunter. The question which catches
is, did the hunter go around the
squirrel?' Ask papa, and see what he
says about it-New York Herald.