192.--THE PUZZLE WALL.

[Illustration]

There was a small lake, around which four poor men built their cottages.

Four rich men afterwards built their mansions, as shown in the

illustration, and they wished to have the lake to themselves, so they

instructed a builder to put up the shortest possible wall that would

exclude the cottagers, but give themselves free access to the lake. How

was the wall to be built?

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