Explanation.—Commence with the sixth from the landlord. You illustrate with counters.
THE DIVIDED ORCHARDS.
To a house where dwell four persons, (see the windows to their rooms) is an orchard; each man wishes to enclose his two fruit-trees in a space equal to his neighbour’s. The dotted lines show the position of the hedges.
Fig. 101.
THE OBLONG PUZZLE.
Fig. 102.
Having cut up a square of card by the lines shown, reform it. By remembering how to form one quarter of the figure, the whole will be so simplified that you can perform it under the spectator’s eyes with a rapidity which will bewilder them.
