Solution

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Across a straight impermeable wall the reflected potential is obtained by conjugating the potential after reflecting its argument. For the real axis the operation is ; the sum is real on that axis. For the imaginary axis it is . Applying both commuting reflections to the dipole produces
The other three poles are outside the first quadrant. The sum is invariant under each reflected-conjugation operation, hence real on each boundary axis. Both walls are therefore streamlines.

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