A WRONG TURNING.
A horseman was riding recently along a country road running east and west. He was travelling in an easterly direction to P, and had just left the post office in the little village of 2 with full instructions as to the direction to take. Exactly six miles from 5 he came to O, where two tracks branch ofi to the left, one goiig northeasterly direct to P a distance of five miles, the other due north to N. Unfortunately the man took the wrong track and did not find his mistake until arriving at the little settlement O. He was there told that P was four" miles due east, but he could not travel that way because the floods had washed away the only bridge over the unfordable creek, and that the roughness of the country would prevent him getting direct across to the road from O. to P. He therefore retraced his steps to the converging point O from where he travelled direct to P. How many unnecessary milea did he travel?
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 20
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176A WRONG TURNING. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 20
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