A PUZZLE FOR THE CURIOUS.

At a town in Gloucestershire the relatives as below, recently surrounded

one dinner-table:--One great-grandfather, two grandfathers, one

grandmother, three fathers, two mothers, four children, three

grand-children, ore great-grandchild, three sisters, one brother, two

husbands, two wives, one mother-in-law, one father-in-law, two

brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-law, one son-in-law, two

daughters-in-law, two uncles, three aunts, one nephew, two nieces, and

two cousins. The whole party consisted of seven persons only.

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