Bill Larsen turned to Gerry, “Honey, we’re going to drive up from Battle Creek and spend a few days with Carl Jones in Minneapolis on the way home. It will be new country to us both, too.”
Driving all morning, noon found them in a small town where they had lunch. They hadn’t gone far, though, from the hot dog stand when they reached a crossroad. Bill looked for a sign but it had been knocked down and rolled into the ditch. He looked for his map and then remembered taking it into the eating place where it had been forgotten and left behind in their talk about the next Genii.
Now neither Bill nor Gerry Larsen asked anyone anything, but that fair member of the California closed corporation told Bill, after but few minutes, the correct road. And that, my readers, is why Carl Jones wasn’t disappointed and had such a good time. How did she do it ?
Last month’s (#58) problem : Who said that John Mulholland met and talked with a MAN ? It was an old girl friend whose daughter tripped across the street, and also tripped up not a few puzzlers.
And now, as lagniappe, the Hon. Intrigue Judge passes on a cute way to remember how many days there are in each month without resorting to man made jingles. Make a fist of your left hand with knuckles up. Call the forefinger knuckle January, the depression between that finger and the next is February, the next finger March, the next depression April, etc. The little finger knuckle is July. Start over with August the forefinger knuckle, etc., and go through December. All 31 days months land on the knuckles and all short months are signified by the depressions. It makes for a nice argument that nature provides in some way for every contingency throughout life.