153--A CUTTING-OUT PUZZLE.

Here is a little cutting-out poser. I take a strip of paper, measuring

five inches by one inch, and, by cutting it into five pieces, the parts

fit together and form a square, as shown in the illustration. Now, it is

quite an interesting puzzle to discover how we can do this in only four

pieces.

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