A PLAY ON WORDS On the busy London strand, a bookseller is arranging his books on outside stands, an over flow from the ones insides. There is one volume in particular, a great tome of a book... Inside Hitler's Lair, or the history of the third reich or something like that... I don't recall off hand... But it was huge... Probably a thousand pages or more... Why so many words to describe one evil man? Couldn't it be summed up with four words.... 'The guy was nuts' But this was one of the largest in the whole store... As the bookseller attended to a potential costumer inside, a quick walking man came up next to the volume recently describe, look around, snatched it from the shelf, and proceeded to walk swiftly away, with the book under his …show more content…
Who is now sitting cross legged in a lotus position, still reeling from the collision, is in fact the very culprit... "Is this true... Stand up now" The bookseller and his assistance being satisfied, they began to walk away with the book and leave the fellow in the hands of the police when they are order to return by constable sergeant who has show up at the scene... "Wait on there... Where are you going with that?" "It is our merchandise, we are returning it to...." "Nothing doing... It is evidence... It must go down to the station with our man" "I don't understand... It's clear what has happened... Everyone has seen it..." "Now that doesn't matter... It's the law... It's incriminating evidence... Don't worry, everything will be returned when this matter is cleared up" The book thief is manacled to the constable and all three, the sergeant, and thief enter a police wagon that has arrived... The crowd slowly disperses as the sergeant sticks his head out at the bookseller... "We will no doubt be needing testimony from you both as the case proceeds..." "Yes" They drive away... The bookseller turns to his assistant, rubbing his chin.... "This is a little much don't you think?" "It may have something to do with the size of the