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Show i 'I' ' INE years have passed sinco last J V wo met, ' But still your face I can't forget. Nmc years of sorrow and of pain I've looked for you and looked lu vain. And now we meet," John Roborts loughod. "And hero you have the samo old graft." "Yes, sergeant, though tho passing years, Havo thinned your locks," said Freddlo Sears. "And I have grown a foot or two, You bet I can remember you. You pinched mo for this phony game, Without a license for tho same." After this happy reunion between Sergt. Roberts and Fred Sears, the latter wan taken before Judgo Dlobl to answer the charge of vagrancy. His kit consisted of nine pairs of cheap spectacles, tho number num-ber being a dellcato rejnlnder of the nine years ho had been away from Salt Lake. Ho pleaded gulity to the charge and explained: ex-plained: "I'm a miner from Butte, And I'm bound for tliw Park. I can go on my route As soon as It's dark." "Then go," said the court, "Nor linger nor lurkr "i I For we'ro onto your sort And wo put them to work." S" 'Wldlo going home the other rJ$tt"f I met a cop," said I,a?.o Wright, t "That bloomln' cop ' Ho made me stop s,'' And threw mc In tho Jail, ker flv" I For being drunk they lined Ike tes.3-"A tes.3-"A burnln' shamo!" moaned Itm ta "This awful plight f Just serves -no right. i I should havo stayed dorm Ion night." j "While out try-Ins- to make an lozes.1 lng for his family by woiklnf tht S trick, Harry McLt-od was arrow! beating a young man out of ObrH of tho check swindle. Tne lout I'd look at McLeod and declared thiti not the man with the fak cbi. I police then placed a chance of npi against McLeod and the City Attxvr tompted to convict him und ii dau, of tho vagrancy ordinance which bus'' common drunkard n vagrant Tiitri denco did noL support tho chargiJMMI Ieod was turned loose. JU |