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| Subject: | Ten Weary Travelers and 1-1 correspondence |
| Author: | Anon |
| Date: | Apr 10 2004 |
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Ten Weary, footsore travelers, all in a woeful plight, sought shelter at a
wayside inn one dark and stormy night.
Nine rooms, no more the landlord said, Have I to offer you. To each of you a
single bed, but the ninth must serve for two.
A din arose. The troubled host could only scratch his head, for those tired men
no two would occupy one bed.
The puzzled host was soon at ease- he was a clever man- and so to please his
guests devised this most ingenious plan.
In room marked A, two men were placed, the third was lodged in B, the fourth to
C was then assigned, the fifth retired in D.
In E the sixth he turned away, in F the seventh man, the eighth and ninth in G
and H, and then to A he ran,
Wherein the host as I have said, had laid two travelers by, then taking
one-the tenth and last- he lodged him safe in I.
Nine single rooms-a room for each-were made to serve for ten: and this it is
that puzzles me and many wiser men.
I think that maybe the ten men were never in a room all at the same time or
maybe there was a set of siamese twins
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