33. What’s My Name? Two men are walking through a forest when they meet a boy who is holding a small bird’s nest.“Hello,” one of the men says. “What’s your name, lad?”The boy smiles and replies, “If you take the word for the thing you hear with, add the thing I’m carrying, and then the number of people you are, you’ll have my name.”What is the boy’s name? Added 5 February 2008 Show Hint Show Solution Hint: Think of short, everyday English words: what do you hear with? What is the boy holding? What single letter might stand for the number two? Solution: The organ you hear with is an ear.The boy is carrying a bird’s nest.The letter T can represent the number two (as the first letter of the word “two”).Combining these parts gives EAR + NEST + T = EARNEST, more commonly spelled Ernest.Therefore, the boy’s name is Ernest (Earnest).
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