THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
number shown by the sacks in the middle. Yet it be not true that
the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also
make 196. Wherefore I do beg you, gentle sirs, so to place anew
the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when
thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the
middle." As the Miller has stipulated in effect that as few bags as
possible shall be moved, there is only one answer to this puzzle,
which everybody should be able to solve.
4.—The Knight's Puzzle.
This worthy man was, as Chaucer tells us, "a very perfect,
gentle knight," and " In many a noble army had he been : At
mortal battles had he been fifteen." His shield, as he is seen
showing it to the company at the " Tabard " in the illustration, was, in
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