Excerpt from Number Puzzles Before the Log Fire: Being Those Given in the Number Stories of Long Ago In the author's Number Stories of Long Ago these number puzzles were given without solutions. In prepar ing that little work for the pupils in the elementary school it was felt that much of the interest in the puzzles would be lost if any explanation were given in the text. It is evident, however, that the solutions of all the problems should be made somewhere available, and for that reason this pamphlet has been prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.