III.

CAT.

ANSWERS TO KNOT VI.

_Problem 1._--_A_ and _B_ began the year with only 1,000_l._ a-piece. They borrowed nought; they stole nought. On the next New-Year's Day they had 60,000_l._ between them. How did they do it?

_Solution._--They went that day to the Bank of England. _A_ stood in front of it, while _B_ went round and stood behind it.

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Two answers have been received, both worthy of much honour. ADDLEPATE makes them borrow "0" and steal "0," and uses both cyphers by putting them at the right-hand end of the 1,000_l._, thus producing 100,000_l._, which is well over the mark. But (or to express it in Latin) AT SPES INFRACTA has solved it even more ingeniously: with the first cypher she turns the "1" of the 1,000_l._ into a "9," and adds the result to the original sum, thus getting 10,000_l._: and in this, by means of the other "0," she turns the "1" into a "6," thus hitting the exact 60,000_l._

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AT SPES INFRACTA.