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Show SAUSAGES FOREVER LOST TO OFFICER Inebriate Catches Patrolman Napping and Oapturos His Porcine String. Patrolman Georgo A. Vanco, who walks a. State street beat between the hours of 3 and 11 o'clock p. m Is fond of sausage. Invariably, he makes his evening meal of them. Last night ho had to be satisfied satis-fied with 'but a third of his usual ration, due to the fact tlmt Policeman Vance is slow to anger. "When he orders sausage, the patrolman insists that the links bo loft fastened together. to-gether. This serves two purposes. First, the entire string can be tested as; to ciuallty by a taste of one link before the meal is begun In earnest. Second, links are not always the same length and It Is more accurate to order by measure than by number. Such a method Insures tho proper degree of satisfaction, and never leaves the diner gaunt of overfed. But tho pet device of having tho sausages come before him ranged like children playing at pop-the-whip near coat Patrolman Vance his meal last night, and left him hungry when tho time arrived ar-rived for him to hurry back to his beat. An Inebriated fellow diner who sat at the counter in the cafe with the policeman police-man was over tempted by the crisp, brown links. Reaching out his hand, he clutched one." It was hot. Rather than drop it, however, he jerked it toward his own plate. The other links fell In line. With the swiftness of a tlsherman's gig, the fork In the left hand of the 'policeman 'police-man descended and harpooned the last link of sausage. The string drew tight, then parted, tho greater number of links continuing their journey to the plate of the envious diner. Patrolman Vance finished his meal without stopping to Fletcherlze and hurried hur-ried out to tell tho story In indignant tones to a sympathetic policeman on the next beat. |