69.--_The Frogs and Tumblers._

It is perfectly true, as the Professor said, that there is only one

solution (not counting a reversal) to this puzzle. The frogs that jump

are George in the third horizontal row; Chang, the artful-looking

batrachian at the end of the fourth row; and Wilhelmina, the fair

creature in the seventh row. George jumps downwards to the second tumbler

in the seventh row; Chang, who can only leap short distances in

consequence of chronic rheumatism, removes somewhat unwillingly to the

glass just above him--the eighth in the third row; while Wilhelmina, with

all the sprightliness of her youth and sex, performs the very creditable

saltatory feat of leaping to the fourth tumbler in the fourth row. In

their new positions, as shown in the accompanying diagram, it will be

found that of the eight frogs no two are in line vertically,

horizontally, or diagonally.

[Illustration]

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