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No. LVII
Here is a drawing of the perfect Latin cross—
The position of the two long pieces does not readily suggest itself to those who try to arrange the five on paper with a pencil.
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No. LVIII
This diagram shows the effectual means taken by four rich men, whose houses were further afield, to exclude four poor men from all access to a central lake, that they might reserve the fishing for themselves.
They built a high wall on the lines that are indicated which, while it left a way for each of them to the water, altogether shut it away from their poor neighbours.