64 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



Five in a row I there must place 

 Or ne'er expect to see her face. 

 Ye men of art, lend me your aid 

 To satisfy this curious maid ! 



AN EASIER ONE 



" Somebody take the basket and bring me just one 

 apple from the orchard. How many apples must you 

 start with so that you can leave half the apples you 

 have and half an apple more at the first gate, and at 

 the second gate dp the same, and at the third and last 

 gate repeat the division of apples as before and bring 

 me the one apple that is left." 



FOR THE LITTLE BOYS WHO LOVE FISHING 

 " If a herring and a half cost a cent and a half, what 



will five herring and a half cost ? " 



" If the third of six be three, what will the fourth of 



twenty be?" 



HARVESTING APPLES AND PEARS 

 " There was a man who had no eyes 

 And he went out to view the skies; 

 He saw an apple tree had apples on, 

 He took no apples off nor left no apples on." 



"Twelve men riding by, twelve pears hanging high; 

 Each man took a pear and left eleven hanging there." 



" Spell ' sink ' (cinque), meaning five." 



Then there were Aesop's Fables in rhyme I 

 could fill pages with them; and with a multitude 

 of little " tangles " which had been handed down 

 from the time of the Pilgrims. One of the most 



