Riddles

5th May 1938

1. If a man had eight gallons of stout in an eight-gallon cask and he had an empty five gallon cask and an empty three gallon cask how would he make halves of it?
2. Four S’s, four I’s, two P’s, and a M put that together and spell it for me?

“INFORMANT; Thomas Reilly, male, Age 42, Prison North, Co. Mayo”

— Dúchas.ie

1. He would fill the three-gallon cask and throw it into the five gallon cask. Then he would fill the three-gallon cask again and throw it into the five gallon cask and he would have one gallon left. He would throw the five gallons into the eight-gallon cask and he would throw the one gallon into the five gallon and he would fill the three gallon cask again and he would have made halves of it.
2. Mississippi