This Man’s Father

Quarteen Baxton shows a photograph of a man to a friend and says, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father is my father’s son.” What relation is Baxton to the man in the photo?


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Baxton has no brothers or sisters, so “my father’s son” must be Baxton himself. Therefore, “this man’s father” — “this man” being the man in the photo — is “my father’s son,” that is, Baxton himself. So the photo is a picture of Baxton’s son.

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