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Ford.
"It is a policeman," he said, "What do we do?"
Ford shrugged.
"What do you want to do?" he said.
"I want you," said Arthur, "to tell me that I have been dreaming for the
last five years."
Ford shrugged again, and obliged.
"You've been dreaming for the last five years," he said.
Arthur got to his feet.
"It's all right, officer," he said. "I've been dreaming for the last five
years. Ask him," he added, pointing at Ford, "he was in it."
Having said this, he sauntered off towards the edge of the pitch, brushing
down his dressing gown. He then noticed his dressing gown and stopped. He
stared at it. He flung himself at the policeman.
"So where did I get these clothes from?" he howled.
He collapsed and lay twitching on the grass.
Ford shook his head.
"He's had a bad two million years," he said to the policeman, and together
they heaved Arthur on to the sofa and carried him off the pitch and were only
briefly hampered by the sudden disappearance of the sofa on the way.
Reaction to all this from the crowd were many and various. Most of them
couldn't cope with watching it, and listened to it on the radio instead.
"Well, this is an interesting incident, Brian," said one radio commentator
to another. "I don't think there have been any mysterious materializations on
the pitch since, oh since, well I don't think there have been any - have
there? - that I recall?"
"Edgbaston, 1932?"
"Ah, now what happened then ..."
"Well, Peter, I think it was Canter facing Willcox coming up to bowl from
the pavilion end when a spectator suddenly ran straight across the pitch."
There was a pause while the first commentator considered this.
"Ye ... e ... s ..." he said, "yes, there's nothing actually very
mysterious about that, is there? He didn't actually materialize, did he? Just
ran on."
"No, that's true, but he did claim to have seen something materialize on
the pitch."
"Ah, did he?"
"Yes. An alligator, I think, of some description."
"Ah. And had anyone else noticed it?"
"Apparently not. And no one was able to get a very detailed description
from him, so only the most perfunctory search was made."
"And what happened to the man?"
"Well, I think someone offered to take him off and give him some lunch,
but he explained that he'd already had a rather good one, so the matter was
dropped and Warwickshire went on to win by three wickets."
"So, not very like this current instance. For those of you who've just
tuned in, you may be interested to know that, er ... two men, two rather
scruffily attired men, and indeed a sofa - a Chesterfield I think?"
"Yes, a Chesterfield."
"Have just materialized here in the middle of Lord's Cricket Ground. But I