with those conditions.


57.--WHAT WAS THE TIME?

"I say, Rackbrane, what is the time?" an acquaintance asked our friend
the professor the other day. The answer was certainly curious.

"If you add one quarter of the time from noon till now to half the time
from now till noon to-morrow, you will get the time exactly."

What was the time of day when the professor spoke?


58.--A TIME PUZZLE.

How many minutes is it until six o'clock if fifty minutes ago it was
four times as many minutes past three o'clock?


59.--A PUZZLING WATCH.

A friend pulled out his watch and said, "This watch of mine does not
keep perfect time; I must have it seen to. I have noticed that the
minute hand and the hour hand are exactly together every sixty-five
minutes." Does that watch gain or lose, and how much per hour?


60.--THE WAPSHAW'S WHARF MYSTERY.