Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Victorian at Yuletide?

A classic brainteaser about mince pies from Britain's master puzzlist

Hello guzzlers.

Today's puzzle originally appeared in the Christmas supplement of The Weekly Dispatch in 1896. It was devised by the magnificent Henry Ernest Dudeney, Britain's greatest inventor of mathematical puzzles, who helped turn the late 19th century into a golden age for the field.