FALSE ALARM

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 17, 4 March 1941, Page 3

FALSE ALARM

AN AWKWARD SEQUEL

A KINGDOM FOR A PAIR OF

PANTS

In a district not a hundred miles from Ellesmere there are two I motor cars of identical make and colour, one of which is owned by the local guardian of the law. On a recent evening one of these cars (not the orie owned by the policeman) pulled up at a certain hotel. Apparently quite a number of other folk made the hotel their rendezvous that evening, no doubt for the quite legitimate purpose of discussing the prospects for MotuIkarara races, or the reaction of Mussolini to recent events in his African empire. For some unexplained .reason the arrival of the car already mentioned was the signal for a quick dispersal of the company within the house! One man hit upon the novel idea of ascending a tree, which he did with remarkable agility. It was, 'however, the beginning of serious trouble for him. Something went wrong, his clothing caught in a branch and he reached terra firma minus his nether garment. An awkward predicament? Rather; _. The unfortunate man could neither re-enter the hostelry nor proceed to his home. Eventually someone became aware of his plight and as good luck would have it there happened to be boarding at the hotel that night the traveller, for a clothing firm, who was subsequently able to report the easiest sale of a pair of pants he had ever made. But,. lest there should be an even worse disaster, either the policeman or the other man should see a car painter or get a new vehicle.