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Nonsense for Old and Young

by Eugene Field

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Easy Mathematics

I If you are good at addition, put down a column of figures, five figures in a row, and the sum will represent the age of Clara Louise Kellogg.


Suppose a man with a bottle of whiskey were to set down the bottle and carry the whiskey, what would the result be?


If one gallon of coal oil will blow up a kitchen stove, how much Kansas City gin is required to make a man feel like a barn afire?


If a Pueblo bed-bug can travel seventy rods in one hour, when there is nothing ahead to encourage him, how many miles will he travel in ten minutes to meet a fat man from Cheyenne?

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