72.--_The Frogs who would a-wooing go._

This is one of those puzzles in which a plurality of solutions is

practically unavoidable. There are two or three positions into which four

frogs may jump so as to form five rows with four in each row, but the

case I have given is the most satisfactory arrangement.

[Illustration]

The frogs that have jumped have left their astral bodies behind, in order

to show the reader the positions which they originally occupied. Chang,

the frog in the middle of the upper row, suffering from rheumatism, as

explained above in the Frogs and Tumblers solution, makes the shortest

jump of all--a little distance between the two rows; George and

Wilhelmina leap from the ends of the lower row to some distance N. by

N.W. and N. by N.E. respectively; while the frog in the middle of the

lower row, whose name the Professor forgot to state, goes direct S.

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