The Planes Indians practiced polygamy, and one chief had three squaws.
The first squaw lived in a teepee of elk hide, the second in a teepee made of buffalo hide, and the youngest in a teepee of hippopotamus hide.
Then he slept with each wife on the eve of his great hunting trip.
He was gone nine moons and when he returned, he went into the elk hide teepee and found that his wife had borne him a son.
Likewise, in the buffalo hide teepee, that squaw, too, had borne him a son.
So, imagine his surprise when he found twin baby boys in the hippopotamus hide teepee.
This just proves that
The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws of the other two hides.
In merry olde England, jousting matches were held every year on the King`s palace grounds.
Each of the opposite sides had a squire assigned to each jousting knight. The King had his own two personal squires.
On one particular occasion, a knight on each opposite side each had a squire with a son.
The sons of the two squires of the two sides were equal to the squires of the High Potentate.