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i •'tilliiciIni i meeting In Trafalgar Square.'MYSTERY AIRSHIP JOKE.LONDON CROWO MOAXEO BY MARKET PORTER.A ' in), tor) alrahlp houx waa worked i• fT on a crowd of people In l-ondon recently hy a meat porter at the Sralthfteld Market*. who declared that he rould aea aiich a craft hovering atiovo Farrlngdon-street.The point of the Joke waa that the majority of the people who gathered agreed wllh the itorter that they nleo c-oold ace a moving and luminous object, although there waa nothing In lha sky to corroborate aucb a view—not even the planet Venus.The myaterloua'cruft was seen-' ut 7 o'clock. At this hour the aky waa atar-le«* so that a more Inauapicloua tune could not have been chosen by a practical Joker When Iho crowd gathered they seemed to tako the presence of an alrahlp for granted. At flrat some said they could not aee It. but aa other* said they could the former must have felt the reputation of their eyealght at■take. Consequently they became convert! Jto tbo delualonl'he aircraft waa cloarly a phenomenon of tbo minda eyes. for it waa evolved by the following proceae:—(1 A waggish mcatporter ecee IL and a crowd Batherstjj Several people vouchsafe the information that they see a light.'«JI Olhera odd that It Is moving lt;4 Bomebody declare. It to be a search light.IT.t They all see hut appear, to be the outline of an alrahlp 8otoe even want to the extent of •» caring that the alrahlp waa making for St Paula, other, added that It was encircling the dome, throwing out occaalonal lUnh-llghta.The mcat porter confeaeed prlvat.ly to a Dally Chronicle'* representative that he hlmaelf never »a* an alrahlp. but had decided. In a Jocular moment, to teat the credulity of eooie of hla friend, and that of the caaual crowdTha greateat summer energlser la NF.MIA rONlC. Take ItIf
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Tamworth Daily Observer
Tamworth, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Apr 26, 1913
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