Mr.Hodges was the owner and editor of a small newspaper.（霍奇斯先生是一家小报社的老板兼编辑。）He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.One day，he received an exciting telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just comethrough a big flood in a village up in the his paper that evening.He was delighted to see that no otherpaper had got hold of the story.Unfortunately，however，angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked，so in thenext day’s paper he wrote："We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the villageof Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood.Today，we are proud to say that our newspaper is thefirst one to bring our readers the news that yesterday’s story was quite false."

A big flood up in the mountains was the news that someone gave Mr.Hodges one day.