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56 .— The Eleven Pennies.

A group of 18th-century men and women gather around a table where a man points at a small pile of coins.

A guest asked some one to favour him with eleven pennies, and he passed the coins to the company, as depicted in our illustration. The writer says:

"He then requested us to remove five coins from the eleven, add four coins and leave nine. We could not but think there must needs be ten pennies left. We were a good deal amused at the answer hereof."

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