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Treasure hunts(寻宝)have excited people’s imagination for hundreds of years both in real
life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s
Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the
real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues(线索)found in a book when he wrote
a children’s story, Masquerade, in 1979. The book
was about a hare, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in
a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help
readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of “red herrings”, or false clues, to mislead
them.
Ken Roberts, the man who found
the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been
searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic
(逻辑), not by luck. His success came
from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had
realized that the words: “One of
Six to Eight” under
the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of
Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six
wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew
that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and
thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for
over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams
had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedforshire, and thought that he must
have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the
connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone
crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in
1772.
Even then his search had not
come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around
the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was
wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February
24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth £； 3000 in the beginning, but the
excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.