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The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)

Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 223

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PARADOXES AND PUZZLES. 219 CARD PUZZLE. One of the best puzzles hitherto made, is represented in the annexed cut. A, is a piece of card; 6 6, a narrow slip divided from its bottom edge, the whole breadth of the card, except just sufficient to hold it on at each side; € ¢, … sideration, it will appear plainly, that there must be as much difficulty in getting the pipe in its present situation, as there can be in taking it away. ‘T'he way to put the puzzle together, is as follows :—The slip, ¢ ¢, e e, is cut out of a piece of card, in the shape delineated in Fig. 8. The…

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