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Show wnryryryryrrynmrnyrnnrnnnnmrfryn f liujuu--u-ir-1j-Lrij-j-lnj-. Puzzle of ihe Poor Men Hero Is an amtizlng puzzlo which looks awfully easy -aftor It is solved. Onco upon a tlmo four poor men settled nround thq banks ot a vory small but vory beautiful lake. The white squares represent thplr our nt 1 a FIG.Z j a a (g FIG.3 (Wr houses, ns shown In flguro 1. Now it seems that Jour ilch men coveted the lake. They tried to buy tho four poor men out at flrst, but theso people refuses to sell. Then t! o rich men, knowing Just hov. much land each of tho poor men owned (which wns hard- Ily more than that covered by tho poor men's houses), bought overy foot of tho property around tho lako and around each poor man's land. After which tho rich men erected a "ducal pilo," as shown by tho black squares In flguro 2. Thon tho rich men, being strongor and more Influential Uinn tholr poor neighbors, dcrldod to exclude tt?m entirely from the uso of tho -nco. To do this they had to build a high stone wall. What shapo was tho wall? Sofore looking nt flguro 3, which is the solution, see If you can trace thfc 1 correct shape ot this very peculiar' wall on flguro 2. |