263.--KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS.

King Arthur sat at the Round Table on three successive evenings with his

knights--Beleobus, Caradoc, Driam, Eric, Floll, and Galahad--but on no

occasion did any person have as his neighbour one who had before sat

next to him. On the first evening they sat in alphabetical order round

the table. But afterwards King Arthur arranged the two next sittings so

that he might have Beleobus as near to him as possible and Galahad as

far away from him as could be managed. How did he seat the knights to

the best advantage, remembering that rule that no knight may have the

same neighbour twice?

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