One
young
lady—of whom our fair
historian records
with delightful
inconsequence: "This Miss Charity Lockyer has since been married to a
curate from Taunton Vale"—placed three empty teacups on a
table, and
challenged anybody to put ten lumps of sugar in them so that there
would
be an odd number of lumps in every cup.
"One
young man, who has been to
Oxford University, and is studying the law, declared with some heat
that,
beyond a doubt, there was no possible way of doing it, and he offered
to
give proof of the fact to the company."
It
must have been interesting
to
see his face when he was shown Miss Charity's correct answer.
See answer