Egg Riddle and a Multiplication, with Faint Sketches
A jesting eggs-on-the-bench puzzle and 17 x 7, on a sheet of pale mechanical sketches
The transcription records text taken from this sheet with the leaf turned upside down: a jesting riddle - six eggs under the bench and six on the bench, what does that make? - and a short multiplication giving 17 x 7 = 119. The two mounted fragments also carry many pale, untranscribed sketches of mechanical devices and tools, including a framed apparatus and a hull-like form. Those drawings are not covered by the page's transcription.
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Eggs-on-the-bench riddle
A jesting puzzle asks: six eggs under the bench and six on the bench, what does that make? The note breaks off just as it begins to reckon it ('make 6 ...').
Multiplication 17 x 7 = 119
A short worked multiplication sets 17 against 7 to give 119. It stands beside the riddle as a plain calculation.
Faint untranscribed mechanical sketches
Both mounted fragments bear numerous pale sketches of devices and tools, including a framed apparatus and a hull-like form. None of these drawings is included in the page's transcription.