The Lady or the Tiger? LbNA #26195
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Oct 8, 2006 |
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| City: | ??? |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | ArchimedesScrew
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| Found by: | ??? |
| Last found: | Jul 24, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFaFFa |
| Last edited: | Oct 8, 2006 |
This is part of Mystery Letterbox Day.
“The Lady or the Tiger?” is a short story by Frank R. Stockton written in 1882. I always thought of it as the original “is the glass half full or half empty” question. The basic story is about a princess of an ancient land. She is a jealous, fierce woman. She falls in love with a pauper and is soon discovered. Her lover is sentenced to an unusual punishment. He is to be put in an arena with two doors. Behind one is a half starved, ferocious tiger. It will maul him to death in front of all the spectators the instant the door is opened. So, he is considered guilty and his sentence is death. Behind the other is a fair maiden. If that door is opened, he will be married on the spot to her for the rest of his life and be considered innocent. He will not be able to see any other woman as long as he lives.
The king, in all his cruelty, arranged for the fair maiden behind the door to be the princess’s most bitter rival. She was more beautiful, more kind, and more loved than the princess herself. The tiger was also the cruelest the kingdom had ever seen. The princess used her power to discover which was behind each door. She sent word to her lover to look up at her in her place of honor and she would send him a signal as to which door to open. The day arrives, he looks up, gets her signal, and opens the door she indicates.
And the story ends there. Would the fiercely jealous princess allow her true love to marry her rival or would she rather watch him be mauled to death?
To open the door:
In Yarmouth, start where you can enter or exit Route 6. Head towards Route 6A. Once on 6A, head towards Captain Bangs Hallet’s house. Before you reach it, turn right onto the first “season” street you come to. Go to the cemetery.
Take the name of the cemetery.
Remove all the vowels.
If a letter appears twice, remove the second occurrence.
Delete the last letter.
Using A=1, B=2, C=3 etc., turn the new last letter into a number.
Add to that the exit number you took.
Count all of the letters that the name of the cemetery has in common with the word “Lady.” Multiply that by zero and add it to the number.
Count all of the letters that the name of the cemetery has in common with the word “Tiger.” Multiply that by four and add it to the number.
Convert that number back into a letter using A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.
Put your two letters in alphabetical order.
This should be a direction. Go to this side of the cemetery. Find the gravestone near this side with letters that can all be taken from the nation’s first university to award a degree in veterinary medicine (use the full name “______ University.”) Look for the nearest border made with rock that is past a road. You will see a path on the other side. Go beyond the border to a choice in the path. Take the left choice. About 23 steps will lead you to a fallen tree in the northerly direction. Your fate awaits you under the tree, under twigs and leaves.
Will it be the lady or the tiger?
“The Lady or the Tiger?” is a short story by Frank R. Stockton written in 1882. I always thought of it as the original “is the glass half full or half empty” question. The basic story is about a princess of an ancient land. She is a jealous, fierce woman. She falls in love with a pauper and is soon discovered. Her lover is sentenced to an unusual punishment. He is to be put in an arena with two doors. Behind one is a half starved, ferocious tiger. It will maul him to death in front of all the spectators the instant the door is opened. So, he is considered guilty and his sentence is death. Behind the other is a fair maiden. If that door is opened, he will be married on the spot to her for the rest of his life and be considered innocent. He will not be able to see any other woman as long as he lives.
The king, in all his cruelty, arranged for the fair maiden behind the door to be the princess’s most bitter rival. She was more beautiful, more kind, and more loved than the princess herself. The tiger was also the cruelest the kingdom had ever seen. The princess used her power to discover which was behind each door. She sent word to her lover to look up at her in her place of honor and she would send him a signal as to which door to open. The day arrives, he looks up, gets her signal, and opens the door she indicates.
And the story ends there. Would the fiercely jealous princess allow her true love to marry her rival or would she rather watch him be mauled to death?
To open the door:
In Yarmouth, start where you can enter or exit Route 6. Head towards Route 6A. Once on 6A, head towards Captain Bangs Hallet’s house. Before you reach it, turn right onto the first “season” street you come to. Go to the cemetery.
Take the name of the cemetery.
Remove all the vowels.
If a letter appears twice, remove the second occurrence.
Delete the last letter.
Using A=1, B=2, C=3 etc., turn the new last letter into a number.
Add to that the exit number you took.
Count all of the letters that the name of the cemetery has in common with the word “Lady.” Multiply that by zero and add it to the number.
Count all of the letters that the name of the cemetery has in common with the word “Tiger.” Multiply that by four and add it to the number.
Convert that number back into a letter using A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.
Put your two letters in alphabetical order.
This should be a direction. Go to this side of the cemetery. Find the gravestone near this side with letters that can all be taken from the nation’s first university to award a degree in veterinary medicine (use the full name “______ University.”) Look for the nearest border made with rock that is past a road. You will see a path on the other side. Go beyond the border to a choice in the path. Take the left choice. About 23 steps will lead you to a fallen tree in the northerly direction. Your fate awaits you under the tree, under twigs and leaves.
Will it be the lady or the tiger?