loating Wedding Gown

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

Lady Angela, the Baron’s fiancée, was awakened one morning by the screams of one of her workers in Alpine Castle. The woman who had screamed said that she saw a wedding dress floating off the dock in front of the castle.

Lady Angela quickly asked the grounds people to secure it and see if it was just a dress or was someone wearing it? The answer came back that it was just a gown. I was placed in a container and allowed to dry.

In the meantime, the Baron was notified. Professor Hamblin, the Baron’s chief advisor, called in the police to see why the gown was floating in Lilliland Lake in front of Lady Angela’s castle.

The police sent a team out to explore the lake area for any missing people, and wedding chapels to make certain that any of the weddings that had been recently performed were without incident. The answer came back that all brides married in Lilliland were accounted for. The police dredging the lake found nothing.

The mystery still persisted. Who wore the wedding dress and exactly what happed to the bride?

Professor Hamblin suggested to the Baron that they should go back to square one on this. “Let’s send the gown to a wedding dressmaker and ask if a label or some identifying mark could be found.”

The Lilliland wedding dressmaker reported that the cloth was white and sheer, just like the material used to make a wedding gown, but it was not a wedding gown.

Brides were usually round and this wedding gown material was square. It was not a wedding dress. It was understandable that seeing it in a wet clump, it would appear to be like a gown, but it was not.

Further inquiry determined that it was a piece of fabric that a fisherman had used to see if he could catch very small fish that would otherwise slip through a regular fishing net.

At a follow up meeting with the Baron and Lady Angela, Professor Hamblin said that all this fuss could have been avoided if people would not have jumped to the conclusion that the white cloth floating in Lilliland Lake was a wedding gown without carefully checking it out first. Once it was thought to be a wedding gown, others believed it and did not bother to check it out for themselves.