Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/67 - Carrying Bags

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 * Carrying Bags
 * A gentleman had to walk to his railway station, four miles from his house,
 * and was encumbered by two heavy bags of equal weight, but too heavy for him to carry alone.
 * His gardener and the boy both insisted on carrying the luggage;
 * but the gardener is an old man, and the boy not sufficiently strong,
 * while the gentleman believes in a fair division of labour, and wished to take his own share.
 * They started off with the gardener carrying one bag and the boy the other,
 * while the gentleman worked out the best way of arranging that the three should share the burden equally among them.
 * Now, how would you have managed it?