SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
1.
If ten the number dreamed of, why 'tis clear That in the dream ten apples would appear.
2.
In Shylock's
bargain for the flesh was found No mention of the blood that flowed around: So when the stick was sawed
in eight, The sawdust lost diminished from the weight.
3.
As curly-headed Jemmy was sleeping in bed, His
brother John gave him a blow on the head; James opened his eyelids, and spying his brother, Doubled
his fist, and gave him another. This kind of box then is not so rare; The lids are the eyelids, the locks are
the hair, And so every schoolboy can tell to his cost, The key to the tangles is constantly lost.
4.
'Twixt
`Perhaps' and `May be' Little difference we see: Let the question go round, The answer is found.
5.
That
salmon and sole Puss should think very grand Is no such remarkable thing. For more of these dainties
Puss took up her stand; But when the third sister stretched out her fair hand Pray why should Puss swallow
her ring?
6.
`In these degenerate days,' we oft hear said, `Manners are lost and chivalry is dead!' No wonder,
since in high exalted spheres The same degeneracy, in fact, appears. The Moon, in social matters interfering, Scolded
the Sun, when early in appearing; And the rude Sun, her gentle sex ignoring, Called her a fool, thus her
pretensions flooring.
7.
Five seeing, and seven blind Give us twelve, in all, we find; But all of these, 'tis
very plain, Come into account again. For take notice, it may be true, That those blind of one eye are blind
for two; And consider contrariwise, That to see with your eye you may have your eyes; So setting one
against the other -- For a mathematician no great bother -- And working the sum, you will understand That
sixteen wise men still trouble the land.
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