I once read a book called “Just For the Fun of It” by Carl Goerch. It was written in 1954 I believe. Anyway, this is just one of the many riddles and fun stories he had to tell.
Her
Name Was Margaret
Hal
Trentman, of the Occidental Life Insurance Company, put this one up to us:
A
man by the name of Brown left Chicago
and went out to the Pacific Coast. He stayed out there twenty years. Then he
returned to Chicago on a visit. The second day he was there he
ran into an old friend on State Street. They stopped and reminisced.
“By
the way,” said the friend, “I’ve got married since you left Chicago. This is my little girl: I’m taking her
into the drugstore to get her an ice cream soda.”
Brown
turned to the little girl and said: “What’s your name, Honey?”
And
the child said: “My name is the same as my mother’s.”
Whereupon
Brown said: “Oh, your name is Margaret also, is it?”
The
child nodded and said: “Yes, sir.”
Now
then: in view of the fact that Brown did not know whom his friend had married,
how did he know the child’s name was Margaret?
It
isn’t a catch problem: it is perfectly logical and there is a perfectly logical
answer to it.
See
if you can work it out.
