Another fine fragment from the Mouse That Roared!!

From page 106 - 109: The Grand Fenwick Liberation Army has penetrated the vastness of downtown New York City during an Atomic Attack Alert Drill, and because of their medieval garb at the first encounter are thought by the above ground security personnel to be "Men From Mars!"

"Men from Mars, the cry went and it spread from the Ninety - sixth Street subway station to the Seventy - second, and on down the line.

"Somebody started singing, soon the chant was taken up with more vigor.

"From below the streets the voices emerged booming but still recognizable from manholes and gratings into the empty city.

"The wardens and police started to worry.

"Several called up Special Reports to say they didn't know how long they could control the people in the subways."

"The Little Doggie in the Window"

"Did half a million people in the New York subway system singing The Little Doggie in the Window constitute a pressing emergency?"

Sound trucks were dispatched to calm the New York masses!

"They sounded like giants shouting in the streets and their message There are no men from Mars around, did not get over in its entirety.

"Most caught only the phrase, Men from Mars around..."

Yep! It just keeps getting better!!