THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
journey, when it was found that they passed each other at a spot
400 yards from the butcher's. How far apart are the two trades-
men's shops ? Of course each boy went at a uniform pace
throughout.
100.—
On the Ramsgate Sands.
Thirteen youngsters were seen dancing in a ring on the
Ramsgate sands. Apparently they were playing " Round the
Mulberry Bush." The puzzle is this. How many rings may they
form without any child ever taking twice the hand of any other
child—right hand or left ? That is, no child may ever have a
second time the same neighbour.
101.—
The Three Motor-Cars.
Pope has told us that all chance is but " direction which thou
canst not see," and certainly we all occasionally come across remark-
able coincidences—little things against the probability of the occur-
rence of which the odds are immense—that fill us with bewilder-
ment. One of the three motor men in the illustration has just
happened on one of these queer coincidences. He is pointing out
to his two friends that the three numbers on their cars contain all
the figures 1 to 9 and 0, and, what is more remarkable, that if the
numbers on the first and second cars are multiplied together they
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