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at the same hour, and even at the same instant,

when these two luminaries are in opposition,

that is to say, at full moon?

The animal an cl its master replied that it was

at the Pole; adding, that in the same place the
sun was always on the meridian* because every

point of the horizon \va*s south to the inhabitants,

if any, at the Pole.

A lawyer who was present disputed a long
time against the spaniel, because the latter pre­

tended that a man who died at noon might

sometimes be the heir of another who died the

same day at half-an-hour after twelve.
Though various laws were quoted which declare

that the heir must survive the testator, the

spaniel proved that the assertion was perfectly

agreeable to these laws, because the person who

died at noon might in certain circumstances have
survived him who died at half-after twelve; this

would he the case if the first died at London and

the other at Yienna.

A third person proposed the following pro­
blem