PUZZLE

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 7, 28 August 1936, Page 56

PUZZLE

JN a certain building in Wellington a business man used to arrive at exactly 8.50 a.m. and leave exactly at 5 o’clock to catch the 5.10 bus to his home.. Now, on a certain morn-~ ing, when he arrived at the office, the nightwatchman stopped him and said: "Mr. Jones, I had rather.a peculiar dream last night; I dreamt that the bus you generally go homie in was smashed in,an accident and you were killed. I don’t believe i in dreams, and I am not superstitious, but there may’ be some kind of warning in it.’" "Thank you, my man," said Jones, "for warning me thus, but I don’t. think it-necessary."’ ' But Mr. Jones worried about it during the day and "decided at last that he would not take the bus home as usual, but would walk instead. Strange to say, next morning he discovered by the paper that the accident actually had bappened and many people were killed. If it had not been for the nightwatchiman’ s timely warning he might now be a corpse. ° Later on, when he arrived at his office, he went to the’ nightwatchman and thanked him warmly for bis warning and also gave:him a.reward of £10, Immediately after this, though, he sacked him. , WHY? Answer-in next week’s "Radio Record."