266.--A TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

Four married couples played a "mixed double" tennis tournament, a man

and a lady always playing against a man and a lady. But no person ever

played with or against any other person more than once. Can you show how

they all could have played together in the two courts on three

successive days? This is a little puzzle of a quite practical kind, and

it is just perplexing enough to be interesting.

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