The "Germans" were getting agitated and nervous about their navy, and had adopted a somewhat novel plan to demonstrate its weakness to the authorities; they took the tonnage of the mercantile navies, of the principal European powers and divide the figures by the tonnage of the corresponding cruiser fleet of each nation. The scheme was ingenious but scarcely logical. The following puzzle was suggested to these clever mathematicians: "If the weight of the British Lion is to the weight of English rounds of beef as 1 to 64, what weight of dachshunds will be required adequately to protect a German sausage weighing 2 lb.?"