Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/144 - The Bricklayer's Task

by : $144$

 * The Bricklayer's Task
 * When a man walled in his estate, one of the walls was partly level and partly over a small rise or hill,
 * precisely as shown in the drawing herewith, wherein it will be observed that the distance from $A$ to $B$ is the same as from $B$ to $C$.


 * Dudeney-Modern-Puzzles-144.png


 * Now, the master-builder desired and claimed that he should be paid more for the part that was on the hill than for the part that was level,
 * since (at least, so he held) it demanded the use of more material.
 * But the employer insisted that he should pay less for that part.
 * It was a nice point, over which they nearly had recourse to the law.
 * Which of them was in the right?