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3i2 All About Inventions alert. The residents along the highway frequented by such a fearsome monster declaimed loudly against their sleep being rudely disturbed by the fearful din which the carriage created, which sounded addition- ally fearsome amid the silence of the night. As a result, the police swooped down, and things once again became uncomfortable for the pioneer. Now he was harassed by being stopped at such frequent intervals as to render travel virtually impossible. But he was not dismayed. He decided to give some apparently tangible excuse for tearing along the roads at all hours of the night. Forthwith the driver and other men mounted upon the vehicle were dressed up with helmets and coats to resemble fire- men, while, to complete the illusion, buckets and other fire-fighting impedimenta of the period were carried and boldly displayed. In this manner the owner of the vehicle succeeded in hoodwinking the police, who, when they saw the vehicle come roaring towards them, naturally thought that it was hurrying with all speed upon an errand of mercy instead of one of sordid commercial import. But this mani- festation of brilliant ingenuity did not enjoy a long vogue; the police saw through the ruse, realised how completely they had been gulled, and forthwith asserted their power with all the stringency they could command. In 1865 all further fertile and energetic effort upon the part of British workers was completely scotched by the passing of one of the most grandmotherly and setting-back-the-clock Acts which has ever been entered upon the Statute Book of Great Britain. That year saw the promulgation of the Locomotive Acts,