Now,
instead of
coins we'll substitute postage-stamps.
Take
ten current
English stamps, nine of them being all of different values, and the
tenth
a duplicate.
Stick two of them in one division and one in each of the
others, so that the square shall this time add up ninepence in the
eight
directions as before."
"Here
you are!"
cried Grigsby, after he had been scribbling
for a few
minutes on the back of an envelope.
The
Professor
smiled indulgently.
"Are
you sure
that there is a current English postage-stamp of
the value
of threepence-halfpenny?"
"For
the life of
me, I don't know. Isn't there?"
"That's
just like
the Professor," put in Hawkhurst. "There
never was such
a 'tricky' man.
You never know when you have got to the bottom of his
puzzles.
Just when you make sure you have found a solution, he trips
you
up over some little point you never thought of."
"When
you have
done that," said the Professor, "here is a much
better one
for you.
Stick English postage stamps so that every three divisions in
a
line shall add up alike, using as many stamps as you choose, so long as
they are all of different values.
It is a hard nut."
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