Here it goes....:-)
Eustace has four friends whose occupations are butcher, baker, tailor, carpenter, and whose names are Mr. Butcher, Mr. Baker, Mr. Tailor, and Mr. Carpenter, though the names do not correspond to the occupations. Each man has a son and a daughter, but no son practices the same trade as his father, nor does any practice a trade corresponding to his own name.
Each son marries a daugther whose maiden name does not suggest her husband's or his father's trade. Each girl changes her last initial when she marries.
The baker's son married Miss Butcher. Mr. Butcher, Sr. is not a baker. The trade of Mr. Carpenter, Sr. is the same as young Mrs. Butcher's maiden name.
Eustace managed to figure out the trade of each of the 8 males and the maiden names of the sons' wives. Can you?
THANKS!
2007-04-16
15:06:25
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