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boats at ridiculously low prices. And some
of the boats tallied with those in the B. C.
Police circular.

In a few hours Owens was ashore at
Friday Harbour and deep in conversation
with the sheriff. Then he looked over some
of the boats. Sure enough, four or five of
them were stolen from the Canadian side.

“Where’s the man who sold these boats,
cheriff?”” said Owens.

“Well, Bob, I figured we had first call on
him. You see, he’s wanted for a liquor
violation and gaol breaking in Port Town-
send, so I just put him on ice before you
came along. Come on up to the gaol and
look him over.”

Up at the little county gaol Owens peere ]
into a cell. The solitary inmate s‘tting on
the slatted bunk raised his head—

“Remember me, Mr. Owens? Sooke Har-
bour?”

“Well, I'll be doggoned,” muttered the
Irish inspector. “Giles Martin.”

POLICEMAN GETS PATIENT TO
TAKE HIS MEDICINE

“T won't take my medicine,” said Lowell
Otis Reese, firmly. Then he stuck out h’s
lower lip and looked out of the corner of
his eyes. “You can’t make me,” he added.

Mrs. Sadie Reese thought for a moment.
“Oho,” she declared, “but a big policemaa
could!”

“Anybody would think he was a child
instead of a 65-year-old author and one-
time columnist who had seen his articles

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in leading American newspapers,” said Mrs.
Reese.

When Sergeant William Meyers, of
Oakland’s Eastern Police Station, heard
Mrs. Reese’s problem, he looked over his
staff with a careful eye. Then he picked
Policeman N. O. Abott.

Man to man, he spoke to the officer.

“You've got a family,” he said. “You
know how to make people take their medi-
cine. Now get in there and make your
Department proud of you.”

A few minutes later, with measured
tread, Abott approached the Reese home
at 3249 Crane Way, Oakland. Admitted
to the house, he entered the bedroom, sat
down heavily by the sick man’s side.

Reese looked at the policeman out of
the corner of his eyes. Then he looked
away.

“All right, buddy,” said Abott.

Reese opened his mouth and swallowed
the medicine-——San Francisco Call.

POLICEMAN’S AMAZING ESCAPE
MANCHESTER, England, Watch Com-

mittee recently were shown the tattered
remnants of a constable’s uniform by the
Chief Constable, Sir John Maxwell. They
were a relic of the amazing escape of a
constable during the big air raid on Man-
chester. The constable was blown from the
street into a shelter, passing through a
wooden floor. His trousers were torn into
shreds, his left leg and thigh being com-
pletely exposed. Yet he escaped injury,
and gave first aid to another constable whose
ankle was injured. The constable’s steel
helmet was crumpled and his boots were so
perished by the heat and the blast that the
soles were like scorched paper. He walked
back to his station in this bedraggled con-
dition still “fighting fit.”

NOTICING that a bed of violets in the
garden of a house, formerly occupied by a
suspect, was lifeless instead of blooming in
April, Detective-Constable Self, of the Kent
County Constabulary (England) dug be-
neath the bed of flowers and discovered an
attache case containing stolen property of
considerable value.

At the Cinque Ports Police Court the
surpect was committed for trial, and Detec-
tive-Constable Self was commended by the
Magistrate for his alertness.

FIRST “WHITE LINE”

MR. JOHN H, WALLACY, of Lancaster,
England, claims to have been the first to
put a “white line” on a road in England,
He chalked a white line outside his house
at Hornby, on the main Bradford-More
cambe Road, in 1916, after there had been
a collision between two farm carts.

Soon afterwards he was warned that he
would get into serious trouble if he did
not stop putting marks on the King’s high
way. Three years later, in 1919, he re
ceived a letter from King George V, com
plimenting him on his “brain wave” and
in 1921 he was offered materials by the
authorities to maintain his white line for
all time.

A witness during a trial was inclined to
be unusually loquacious, and ultimately the
judge took him in hand to see if he could
not reduce the flow of words.

“T should be glad,” said his Lordship,
“if you would be a little more terse. |
suppose you know, my man, what ‘terse
means?”

“Of course I do,” came the reply. “Any
fool in Lancashire knows what it means
It’s t’first coach at funeral!”’—Ceylon Police
Magazine.

THE barber nicked a constable with hs
razor, and the blood flowed freely.

“Well,” the barber said, “I never thought
it was so easy to bleed a policeman.”

“Tt would be a good thing,” remarked his
victim, “if some of the barbers were like
their razors.” a

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“Underground,” was his calm reply.

A, DIFFERENCE
TRAMP: “Spare a coin for a bed,
I have to sleep out at nights.”
Sir: “So have I, but I had to paya@
doctor to tell me to.” ’

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