32 The Llama Race Receny. while | was in a holiday resort in Peru | watched a very interesting spectacle. Two gentlemen by the name of Sr. Guittierez and Sr. Ibanez decided to have a Llama race over the mile course on the beach sands. They requested me and some of my other friends whom | had met at the resort to act as the judges. We stationed ourselves at different points on the course. which was marked off in quarter miles But. the two Llamas. being good friends not to part company. and ran together the whole was However. we the judges. noted with interest fhe!" lowing results. The Llamas ran the first three quarters my ax es three quarters minutes. They took the same tune to runs the first half mile as the second half. And they ran the third quarter in exactly the same time as the last guar ter. From these results | became very much interested in finding out just how long it took those two Liamas to run the whole mile Can you find out the answer? 27