Show I Bandits Seal Promise with Kisses I as D R t KTASHINGTONS Dirty Dozen has W 1v been reduced by three Judge Do Lacy did It when ho bade three very small boys accused of stealing cigars lpes milk and bread to kiss their parents and promise never never fever again to try to emulate the Forty Thieves or any other bad people and to turn back to the owners of the property threo dollars and some rents to compensate for tho loss And remember said tho Judge keep away from the gang you call ho Dirty Dozen If you must have a jang make up one of good compan ons who will teach you something hat will do you some good Judgo Do Lacy has a way of making I boy tell him Just what the boy Is when he has taken anything that does I not belong to him Now what would you call the boy who took a watch of yours and didnt jlvo It back The biggest boy hung his head and wlsted his cap and wanted to sink hrough tho floor Tell me now what would you call him himTho The biggest boys lips framed tho words A thief And in that way Clerk Harper listening attentively knew that tho boy had pleaded guilty Each of them did for that matter The Judge ordered tho middlesized youngster to step around and kiss his mother and ask her to forglvo him and to understand that he would never never do It again and would have nothing to do with the Dirty Dozen The middlesized boy sulked Tho spirit of the proud rover of the Spanish Span-ish main told him that to kiss a woman wom-an in court oven his mother was a puerile thing to do Kiss me whispered tho mother The boy still stood debating with himself Do you want to go to the reform school thundered the Judge And then the proud rover of the Spanish main turned and fled and the erstwhile dirty digit became his mothers little boy again and was caught In a loving pair of arms and tears ran down tho faces of the boy and his mother and several other women who wero In court And the other dirty two had to kiss their fathers that the ends of Justice might bo met |