324.—­THE LION AND THE MAN.

In a public place in Rome there once stood a prison divided into sixty-four cells, all open to the sky and all communicating with one another, as shown in the illustration.  The sports that here took place were watched from a high tower.  The favourite game was to place a Christian in one corner cell and a lion in the diagonally opposite corner and then leave them with all the inner doors open.  The consequent effect was sometimes most laughable.  On one occasion the man was given a sword.  He was no coward, and was as anxious to find the lion as the lion undoubtedly was to find him.

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The man visited every cell once and only once in the fewest possible straight lines until he reached the lion’s cell.  The lion, curiously enough, also visited every cell once and only once in the fewest possible straight lines until he finally reached the man’s cell.  They started together and went at the same speed; yet, although they occasionally got glimpses of one another, they never once met.  The puzzle is to show the route that each happened to take.

325.—­AN EPISCOPAL VISITATION.