PERPLEXING TWINS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1933, Page 2

PERPLEXING TWINS

CASES IN ENGLAND. REMARKABLE LIKENESSES. The “Heavenly Twins” is the name generally used by residents in Fallowfield, Manchester, when they are speaking of George and John Prince, who are 19 years of age. They are so much alike that they even puzzle their father. The twins’ choice of clothes is often bizarre. John’s latest choice is an old grey flannel jacket, breeches and field boots. Both boys have an amazing facial likeness, a very broad grin, and an allpervading sense of humour. The twins do not exploit their: likeness as much as they might. John grows his hair long purposely in order to make it easier for people to know him from George. John works as errand boy for a greengrocer. She says she could always tell John from George. But John t says that :f he wore George’s clothes ' and went in the shop his employer would say, “Where’s John?” The two youths are no longer the inseparables they were as children. Until they were 14 they always did things together, even to having measles and pneumonia. If one was hurt the other felt it.

But they have grown but of that. Not long ago John cheeked,a milkman, who vowed vengeance. Half an? hour later the milkman met the' unsuspecting George. “George got the ;gpod-hid-ing the milkman promised me,” said John, “but I didn’t feel it.” The Prince brothers have rivals who might well be called the “Lincoln Imps.” They are as alike as two peas, and as in the case of the Manchester twins it is difficult to tell them apart. These two boys, who are 13 years of age, are the sons of Mr. A. Wilson, • of Heath, near Lincoln, the manager of a large omnibus company. Provided with easy methods of transport they .have - travelled thousands of miles by bus, and have been in every, large city in the North of England.

The greatest joy of these twins is driving cars and buses round the private roads attached to the depot of the omnibus company. George and Bernard are expert drivers, and can handle anything on wheels, from a baby car to a 20-seater bus.