The knight can start from any square, and, taking the course indicated, return on the twentieth move to the starting point.
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By George Canning
Though weak my first is reckoned,
And game made of my second;
Yet both bade hosts defiance
When joined in close alliance.
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As Lubin did my first, and, scythe in hand,
Espied his Phyllis by the hedgerow stand,
He called out to my next, in cheery tones and clear,
“Tell me, sweet all, you’ll fetch a pot of beer.”
No. XCI.—THE STOLEN PEARLS
A dishonest jeweller, who had a cross of pearls to repair for a lady of title, on which nine pearls could be counted from the top, or from either of the side ends to the bottom, kept back two of the pearls, and yet contrived to return the cross re-set so that nine pearls could still be counted in each direction, as at first. How was this done?
