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A Poultry Problem

I bought some fowls the other day, One hundred dollars did I pay:

Each turkey did five dollars touch, Each goose did bring but half as much; While chickens, if it must be told, For ten cents each were freely sold; One hundred fowls in all had I, Of each how many did I buy?

Ans.-Twelve turkeys, 13 geese and 75 chickens.

A old woman With intent Put on her And away she went Something to make me ! she cried, give me I pray, to-day.

Supply in the blank spaces five words made of the same four letters. 1. Vile. 2. Evil. 3. Veil. 4. Levi. 5. Live.

Hope Imoavne fear. Ans. A man in love is between hope and fear. Make one word out of these two words: Now dore. Ans.-One word (using same letters).

A man having a fox, a goose, and some corn, came to a river which it was necessary to cross. He could, however, take only one across at a time, and if he left the goose and corn while he took the fox over, the goose would eat the corn, but if he left the fox and goose, the fox would kill the goose. How shall he get them all safely over? Ans. First he takes the goose over, and returns and takes the fox over; then takes the goose back, and then takes the corn over; after which he returns and takes the goose over again.

Place ten cards in a row, as they are numbered, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and require some one to put them together into piles of two in each pile by passing each card over two other cards. Ans. -Let the cards be denoted by the numbers. First place 7 on 10, 5 on 2, 3 on 8, 1 on 4, and 9 on 6. Take fifty, add cipher, add five, add the fifth of eight, and the total is the sum of human happiness. Ans. -LOVE. :