A Tangled Tale
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A TANGLED TALE
BY
WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ARTHUR B. FROST
Hoc meum tale quale est accipe.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1885
[All Rights Reserved]
Richard Clay & Sons,
bread street hill, london, e.c.
And Bungay, Suffolk.
To My Pupil.
Beloved pupil! Tamed by thee,
Addish-, Subtrac-, Multiplica-tion,
Division, Fractions, Rule of Three,
Attest thy deft manipulation!
Then onward! Let the voice of Fame
From Age to Age repeat thy story,
Till thou hast won thyself a name
Exceeding even Euclid's glory!
PREFACE.
This Tale originally appeared as a serial in The Monthly Packet, beginning in April, 1880. The writer's intention was to embody in each Knot (like the medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, concealed in the jam of our early childhood) one or more mathematical questions—in Arithmetic, Algebra, or Geometry, as the case might be—for the amusement, and possible edification, of the fair readers of that Magazine.
L. C.
October, 1885.
CONTENTS.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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