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Läsebok N:o 20—22.
the Staunton men, and whoever wins most games, shall be
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considered the best player until this time next year.
A. Oh! that will be delightful; but you are sure to
beat us; I shall set to work, and read up the chapter on
»End-games».
U. Ha, ha ! I’m afraid you will not get very far between
now and this evening.
C
A. Oh yes! I shall, and beat you too, if you don’t
take care!
U. Well, we shall see, but mind and come in good time.
25. The Maid and the Milk-pail.
A country maid was walking very deliberately with a
pail of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following
train of reflections. The money, for which I shall sell this
milk, will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three
hundred. These eggs will produce at least two hundred and
fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to market
about Christmas, when poultry always bears a good price; so
that by May-day I cannot fail of having money enough to
purchase a new gown. Green — let me consider — yes,
green becomes my complexion best, and green it shall be.
Transported with the thought, she began to toss her head
with an air of importance, when down came the pail of milk,
and all her imaginary happiness vanished in a moment.
2(5. The difficult Passage.
A man has a little boat in which he has to carry, from
one side of a river to the other, a wolf, a goat and a cabbage;
and is not allowed to carry more than one of these at the
same time. Which shall he take first without the risk that,
during one of his navigations, the wolf may devour the goat
or the goat the cabbage? Suppose he carry the wolf, the
cabbage is lost — if the cabbage, the embarassment is equal;
for he must risk his goat on the other side of the river. The
answer is: He must take the goat first, the wolf will not
touch the cabbage; iu the second passage he carries the
cabbage, and brings back the goat; in the third he transports
the wolf, which may again be safely left with the cabbage.
He conclude? with returning for the goat.
27. Franklin’s Visit to his Mother.
Franklin had been some years absent from his native
city (Boston), and was at that period of life when the
greatest and most rapid alteration is made in the human appear.
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