Explanation.—CI, CLI, CLIO (Clio, the muse of history, one of the nine muses).
Suppose the figure to represent railroad tracks, C D and E F being each the length of a car or locomotive, and a and b each representing a car on the track and c representing a locomotive on E F. Now how can the locomotive change the relative position of a and b so that b will be on the track where a is and a will be on the track where b is?
Answer.—The locomotive c backs a down and out toward A, then runs over toward B and backs b up on E F, then runs back toward B and goes over toward A, then runs up C E and draws b down on C E, then runs over toward A and gets car a, draws it over toward B and backs it up on D E. It can also be readily done by first backing a down on A C and drawing to and leaving it on C D.
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