MISCELLANEOUS PUZZLES
86.—
Captain Longbow and the Bears.
That eminent and more or less veracious traveller, Captain
Longbow, has a great grievance with the public. He claims that
during a recent expedition in Arctic regions he actually reached the
North Pole, but cannot induce anybody to believe him. Of course,
the difficulty in such cases is to produce proof, but he avers that
future travellers when they succeed in accomplishing the same feat,
will find evidence on the spot. He says that when he got there he
saw a bear going round and round the top of the pole (which he
declares
is
a pole), evidently perplexed by the peculiar fact that no
matter in what direction he looked it was always due south.
Captain Longbow put an end to the bear's meditations by shooting
him, and afterwards impaling him, in the manner shown in the
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