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    in the original text.
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                        “LAUGH AND GROW FAT.”




                          THE PUZZLE KING.


                         AMUSING ARITHMETIC.
                       BOOK-KEEPING BLUNDERS.
                      COMMERCIAL COMICALITIES.
              CURIOUS “CATCHES.”    PECULIAR PROBLEMS.
                        PERPLEXING PARADOXES.
                QUAINT QUESTIONS.    QUEER QUIBBLES.
                           SCHOOL STORIES.
                         INTERESTING ITEMS.

        Tricks with Figures, Cards, Draughts, Dice, Dominoes,
                          Etc., Etc., Etc.

                           By JOHN SCOTT,

  Author of “How to Become Quick at Figures,” “Doctrine of Chance,”
        “Tank Calculator,” “Cyanide Vat Calculator,” &c., &c.

                      INSTRUCTIVE and AMUSING.

                             Copyright.

                              Brisbane,
   H. J. DIDDAMS & CO., Printers and Publishers, Elizabeth