This again shows how the stones can be placed so that an ordinary set of dominoes seems to be unduly rich in doublets.
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We know how, by the addition of a single letter, our cares can be softened into a caress; but in the following Enigma a still more contradictory result follows, without the addition or alteration of a letter, by a mere separation of syllables:—
None can locate the subject of my riddle.
For all the world would seek its place in vain;
Cut it asunder almost in the middle,
And in our very midst its place is plain.
An aching void, an absolute negation,
Into the opposite extreme it breaks;
With just a gap to mark their new relation
Each letter still the same position takes.
No. LXXX.—TWO MORE PATTERNS
Here are two more perfect arrangements of a set of dominoes in quartettes, so that the pips and blanks are similarly grouped and repeated:—
