READING 2 OF 22 focus words
A puzzling inventory
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A new riddle awaited them in the storeroom. Three identical lamps each bore the inventory number one.
The clerk had never meant to bewilder visitors. Each lamp belonged to a different town, and each town had started its own list at one.
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