SOLUTIONS
squares can be calculated direct from the given dimensions of the
strip of gold, and the casket can have no other dimensions than 20
inches square. The number in a square indicates the length in
2G
£?
7k
^
10 x i
20
inches of the side of that square, so the accuracy of the answer can
be checked almost at a glance.
Sir Hugh de Fortibus made some general concluding remarks on
the occasion that are not altogether uninteresting to-day.
" Friends and retainers," he said, " if the strange offspring of my
poor wit about which we have held pleasant counsel to-night hath
mayhap had some small interest for ye, let these matters serve to call
to mind the lesson that our fleeting life is rounded and beset with
enigmas. Whence we came and whither we go be riddles, and al-
beit such as these we may never bring within our understanding, yet
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