Logic In Rhyme 4 Poem by Kim Barney

18)
Old Mister Wilson was out for a walk
one pleasant autumn day
when he heard the bell from the town clock
ringing across the way,
and so as a small hill he was climbing,
the peeling of the bell he began timing.
Six o'clock it was and thirty seconds it took
for that bell to finish ringing.
He wrote that down in his notebook
and right then he started thinking:
How long would it take for
that same clock to strike twelve?
Can you solve it for him?
Go on now; dig and delve.

(19)
Two books are standing on a shelf
side by side (I've read them myself) .
In the correct order they stand:
Volume One is on the left
and Two is on the right.
Their covers touch, you understand,
and they are brown and white.
Each book six hundred pages has,
three hundred to the inch.
(I'm sure this problem coming up
you will solve in a cinch.)
Now, just one quarter of an inch
is the thickness of each cover
(and if your sister solves this first,
please, don't you dare shove her) .
A bookworm starts to eat his way
from page one volume one
to the last page of volume two
(won't stop until he's done) .
If he goes straight, the shortest way
(I'm ready to drop the gavel)
Can you tell me this very day:
How far does the worm travel?

(20)
A man with a pack approaches a store.
It's one that he has never seen before.
He knows he must open the pack
before he reaches the store
or he will never get back
to where he was before;
he will just die.
Do you know why?
Your perceptive brain you must wrack
and figure out what's in the pack.

(Try to solve them before you look at the answers in the poet's notes)