THE VILLAGE SIMPLETON.
(
Money Puzzles)
A facetious individual who was taking a long walk in the country came
upon a yokel sitting on a stile. As the gentleman was not quite sure of
his road, he thought he would make inquiries of the local inhabitant;
but at the first glance he jumped too hastily to the conclusion that he
had dropped on the village idiot. He therefore decided to test the
fellow's intelligence by first putting to him the simplest question he
could think of, which was, "What day of the week is this, my good man?"
The following is the smart answer that he received:--
"When the day after to-morrow is yesterday, to-day will be as far from
Sunday as to-day was from Sunday when the day before yesterday was
to-morrow."
Can the reader say what day of the week it was? It is pretty evident
that the countryman was not such a fool as he looked. The gentleman went
on his road a puzzled but a wiser man.
LOCOMOTION AND SPEED PUZZLES.
"The race is not to the swift."--_Ecclesiastes_ ix. II.
Answer:
The day of the week on which the conversation took place was Sunday. For
when the day after to-morrow (Tuesday) is "yesterday," "to-day" will be
Wednesday; and when the day before yesterday (Friday) was "to-morrow,"
"to-day" was Thursday. There are two days between Thursday and Sunday,
and between Sunday and Wednesday.
