rofessor's Irish Tweed Hat

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

The Baron’s chief advisor, Professor Hamblin, was a professor at Cambridge University in England before he came to Lilliland. While at Cambridge, he would always wear an Irish tweed hat, especially during the cold winter days at the campus.

When he came to Lilliland, he continued to wear that same Irish tweed hat. It was made of a soft tweed material that could be easily folded up and placed in the pocket of his jacket.

One day, the Baron noticed that the Professor had not been wearing his favorite hat. The Baron asked why and they Professor said it was lost or misplaced. The Professor added that he had looked all over his rooms in the castle and in his office but he could not find it. Finally the Professor asked everyone in Lilliland Castle to look around for the hat, even on the castle grounds and at the stables. But after a while noting was found.

Professor Hamblin wrote to the store in Cambridge where the hat was purchased many years earlier, but received a reply that the store was no longer in business.

The Professor, at this point, just gave up on the hat until one day he saw a man walking down the street in Lilliland wearing a tweed hat just like the hat that he lost. He stopped the man and asked about his hat. The Professor noticed that the hat still had the very small shamrock pin on the brim. It definitely was his lost hat.

The Professor asked the man where he obtained the hat. He said from a thrift shop run for a local charity right here in Lilliland. It turned out that the thrift shop was the same shop where the Professor donated his clothes several times a year, along with other clothes from the Lilliland Castle personnel.

The Professor concluded that the hat must have gotten into the pile of clothes that was to be donated to charity by mistake.

When the stranger realized that he gotten the hat by mistake, he offered to return it to the Professor. The Professor gratefully accepted the offer and received his hat back. The Professor gave the stranger a very generous reward for the transaction.

When the Baron learned of the Professor’s good fortune, he was very happy and asked that a special “Return to the Professor” label should be sewn into the lining of his now famous Irish tweed hat.