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XV—The Perplexity Column as done by the Jaded Journalist
INSTANTANEOUS ANSWERS TO ALL QUESTIONS
(All questions written out legibly with the name and address of the sender and accompanied by one dollar, answered immediately and without charge.)
Harvard Student asks:
Can you tell me the date at which, or on which, Oliver Cromwell’s father died?
Answer. No, I can’t.
Student of Mathematics asks:
Will you kindly settle a matter involving a wager between myself and a friend? A. bet B. that a pedestrian in walking downhill over a given space and alternately stepping with either foot, covers more ground than a man coasting over the same road on a bicycle. Which of us wins?
Answer. I don’t understand the question, and I don’t know which of you is A.
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