Plane Geometry Puzzles 105:. .. _.-............ _ ..... ----.
A cwherein it will be observed that the distance from A to B is the same as from
B to C. Now, the contractor desired and claimed that he should be paid more
for the part that was on the hill than for the part that was level, since
(at least, so he held) it demanded the use of more material. But the employer
insisted that he should pay less for that part.
It was a nice point, over which they nearly had recourse to the law. Which
of them was in the right?
A "----f
- MEASURING THE RIVER
A traveller reaches a river at the
point A, and wishes to know the width
across to B. As he has no means of
crossing the river, what is the easiest
way of finding its width?- PAT AND HIS p~.r .~, ,~L .. ~ '.
Our diagram represents a field 100 t· ~ ~ "~~~~1
yards square. Pat and the pig that he i
wishes to catch are in opposite corners, I t.
100 yards apart. The pig runs straight t (-
for the gateway in the top left-hand t'
corner. As the Irishman can run just ' " , '
twice as fast as the pig, you would , ~
expect that he would first make , •
'lnright fo, th' g.to .. d do" it. But ~
this is not Pat's way of doing things. {.~ ~
He goes directly for the pig all the it ~~. '11..... ","" ~ '\ -.0;., "'~. • .... ~J
time, thus taking a curved course. ~ ~ -~.:-b~""''l;~~~