Sometimes a quite simple statement of fact, if worded in an unfamiliar
manner, will cause considerable perplexity. Here is an example, and it
will doubtless puzzle some of my more youthful readers just a little. I
happened to be at a motor-car race at Brooklands, when one spectator
said to another, while a number of cars were whirling round and round
the circular track:--
"There's Gogglesmith--that man in the white car!"
"Yes, I see," was the reply; "but how many cars are running in this
race?"