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Amaze Your Friends

farmer (showing off his farm to a friend): "How many sheep
would you say were in that flock? See if you can get close with
a rough guess."
friend (after short pause): "I'd say there were about 497
sheep there."
"Why, yon hit it right on the head, that's exactly right!
How in the world did you know?"
"It was simple, really, I just counted all the legs, and then
divided by four!"

the memory stunt contained in this chapter may not be as
astounding as dividing the legs of sheep by four, but it's
certainly easier to do. You'll probably be glad to know that
there are no mathematics involved at all—just a trained
memory.
A friend of mine in the textile business here in New York
has told me that he has gained quite a reputation for him-
self by remembering numbers. He goes to lunch with a few
business acquaintances each day, and he invariably asks
them to give him any four or five digit number to memo-
rize. He usually has anywhere from three to six people with
him, and he memorizes the numbers they give him. They
interrupt him during the luncheon to see if he can still re-
call the numbers, and, of course, he does.
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