Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · London : Frederick Warne · leaf 411
f the movement be continued, the pennywill, after a second or two, fall through by force of its ownweight. The paper remains uninjured. 394 Puzzles Old and New. No. XLVIIL—The Packers Secret. Solution. As the reader will doubtless have guessed, the secret liesin a sort of starlike arrangement of… … Fig. 521. Keeping these steady by pressing the fingers of the left handupon them, proceed to place the remaining counters as indi-cated by Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. But yon are still one countershort. This you supply by removing the centre counter(No. 1), and placing it in the spot marked 1A. The…
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