Joseph Bloggs: "I can't follow it, my dear boy. It makes me dizzy!"
John Snoggs: "It's very simple. Listen again! You happen to be my father's brother-in-law, my brother's father-in-law, and also my father-in-law's brother. You see, my father was--"
But Mr. Bloggs refused to hear any more. Can the reader show how this extraordinary triple relationship might have come about?
