A boating puzzle

Press, 29 July 1976, Page 5

A boating puzzle

A farmer’s wife caught a wolf which had escaped from the zoo in the nearby city. She decided to return it the next day. She had to cross a river which separated her farmhouse from the city, but the bridge had collapsed in a recent flood, and she was forced to use her canoe. As she was making a trip to the zoo, she thought that she would give her niece, who lived near it and was recovering from measles, a pet lamb, and a bunch of flowers. However, the canoe was small and the farmer’s wife could only paddle one passenger across at a time. What was she to do? She could not leave the

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