Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/15 - Sawing Logs

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 * Sawing Logs
 * "Your charge," said Mr. Grigsby, "was $30$ shillings for sawing up $3$ cords of wood made up of logs $3$ feet long,
 * each log to be cut into pieces $1$ foot in length."


 * "That is so," the man replied.


 * "Well, here are $4$ cords of logs, all of the same thickness as before,
 * only they are in $6$-feet lengths, instead of $3$ feet.
 * What will your charge be for cutting them all up into similar $1$-foot lengths?"


 * It is curious that they could not at once agree as to the fair price for the job.
 * What does the reader think the charge ought to be?