THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
But the curious point of the puzzle is that I have found that
the feat may really be performed in so few as four pieces, and
without turning over any piece when placing them together. The
method of doing this is subtle, but I think the reader will find the
problem a most interesting one.
27.—
The Dyers Puzzle.
One of the pilgrims was a Dyer, but Chaucer tells us nothing
about him, the Tales being incomplete. Time after time the
company had pressed this individual to produce a puzzle of some
kind, but without effect. The poor fellow tried his best to follow
the examples of his friends the Tapiser, the Weaver, and the
Haberdasher, but the necessary idea would not come, rack his
brains as he would. All things, however, come to those who
wait—and persevere—and one morning he announced in a state
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