Show duj haj M 1 tchi cowen COWED it va U D p the THELONG LONG FIRM you atou asroui astonish sh me mr M r catty you do indeed said sald I 1 and land I 1 dont know that C taiti th q eseny use whatever in making a any k fc further inquiries loh lob yes r I 1 he interrupt interrupted rd take t this his letter to superintendent bailem and if y rolans rats mise e you you will w ill lii be intel interested by his in formation well sir I 1 thanked him for li his letter i and advice continued the commer commercial clai cial and after a little litt trouble I 1 found mr bailem to fo ii whom I 1 related dewed my story after anding landing li him my letter and very wil aig found him either to assist me in my search or give i formation information n any I 1 suppose said sald I 1 interrogatively mr bailem bustness was as quick to di divine vine your business usi s as asmal mr catty had been aes just so says the commercial but he isuga h be only smiled detectives tives s you see consider it unprofessional to 6 laugh lauh in the face of a c client a as I 1 gnp pose I 1 ck might 0 call tall myself and mr bailem only smiled gravely nodded A his head bead and saadah sat dAh well then did you t go 0 it with your v r researches ese arches 71 I 1 asked kaj jl N 04 0 we wa yent went no I 1 further I 1 r turned returned my 1 I 1 11 1 TL commercial omner clai cial informant 1 because I 1 saw siw it was no good to da so but I 1 got intelli gence that both startled and amused pe me I 1 you heard soi sot something bething of the plans of thelong the tho long firm I 1 suppose if vou you you did not ye id e i i of houi plans sug suggested sted 1 I indeed I 1 did replied the narrator 11 1 I asked mr bailem what ase use the long fir firm m could really make maki of a ab seu set of plans that were of no use to any one but engineers or gli gil miners tiers or railroad speculators 0 sr bless you sin sir ir said he e they vhey t makany le anyo ming wing merely for the sake take of taki taking them sythey they llave have bave acquisitiveness very strongly aigle t de developed je loped as I 1 have kaye beard heard phrenologist say at the same time they are cemarka b bly 1 I 1 VJ clever in ih getting etting quit af of wt whatever T they hy bethold of 41 why hy sir iio ilo he wenton on I 1 would you di beleve it thea athly ja t a pulpit on Vday and ali all omnibus the day lufter jac lafter L r and nud I 1 baud band athey bate hare baye had cows geese reese sheep dogs 0 pigs pigs poultry e even veu ven an eagleb e a g I 1 e ef I 1 n welcy welly liow blow now said we c commercial om mercA ii i mag nag really my turn lurn to langh andalan andi andl langli I 1 li I 1 did very heartily what lii iii inane thie world said I 1 to mr Nail nall luil Z J 6 gli ath V iv the omnibus or the 06 pulpit or elk ekk h sald said 11 d he be the eagle eagie fell into our JP 1 y edn ddn 1 l lof lop jef v vv dmm r A h an aa p was at the police station w and lid iid struck with the sight of the bird he be inquired to whom it w was as direct ei eid eiT the r na name me he knew at once and he took tile the liberty of ae it communicated with th odd thino thing bonneted connected the tho e 1 ag ey sa s1 bailem went I 1 on on t 0 osay k f say with a laugh that anius amused ed us lor tor weeks after we had no place to 10 put it except in the coal cellar and add ole oie one of thelm epp erf going down one evening to fill a scuttle with coals I 1 rj eale arhim 66 sith eith agh it was chained up and away away he sc amper ed reaming screaming tc out that the devil wa wab was s after him VS va eagle easle homeier died aled ja before we f our found on outtie dille dilie owner aner andreh and nhen n w we e a old ola liw body to a bird stuffer aud and handed the pro meds weds to the owner after paying the thrall J rail 4 way fare ac ar for the pulpit Ae the other oiher thi things rigs nedo heda nten geda amr efina enin efin 4 lluu liun CA 1 fortunately a lot of men vita money in tiei tiel to to pick lip tip a e keap heap bargain w whether i it A is really an ill q ane or liot ot if ii it were vere not for tax thee ei people the he L longa 0 ni airm starre staure they are arc just as a bad if not wak inn ina ithe abc ibe ral rai it rogue k it t ta if tie ile AtU Tf jf m J od our ofte tle ajac reach olt oft p prosecution roseau falk y har kniery ahn these fellows ar tare larene arton t ne e inep 0 they and th they eyare are the pen men who get goods at one twentieth p pari part a r t 0 of r their value after P paying their railway expenses ii but 1 do you really mean miah to nailei bailem that there P is nothing to be done with these people yes the newspapers do a great gleat deal t to Q V pom pon them but thet they will always have victims so b lond lont onias fas das pe 9 aid sia a 1 enough non fall to give credit to tiny lluy an write a decent letter and date jt it from rom some high why sir it is not three weeks since they fot got lot forty po pounds u 11 48 worth oah of pork peik 1 p afes ies les don down from london here I 1 could no longer contain my latiol laughter iter lter but burst out in aloud a loud guffaw why they must be living oil on pork fork pies ples yet mr bailem said 1 L no such thing r sir said lie they ga gathered tb the whole bibe of thomm thorn together and ifor for three days til tiley f ey feasted ad pork P pies ples ies les ics and porter the tiie way the affair caille caine to be known to ug us kvas was thou through a b the tho giu fiu immense mense gathering of familiar hands hand at a public house in bia bla the city cley org one of ou our atol dij alj saw raw a score or two of them there one day anif and on going lato into the place he found emy every man with a porkpie por pork kp pic in his hand abd arid a pot of beer or porter before him they sold some of the pies to raise money moner for the drink and in three days here there was not a vesti vestige e of a crust left the owner of the pies came don down dou from london to seek after but ba liis blis journey was vs useless eless ile he find hise biscus us tomer and if he had lie he could only llave sued him io in the county court count has there ever over been any tiny attempt to prosecute any ans anhof t them I 1 asked L yes there jias has replied rallied mr nailei Na licin ilcin 1 but bat u unsuccessfully successfully ns an ali old fellow with scarcely a coat on ins ing back and nothing more dhati than a table and two chairs in his 41 sky parlor wrote to london for a lam fam family coach and got it too he arote like ilke a quaker his letter respected 1 and the carriage came d down own jn in duh dut due course he T raised alsed sufficient money mones to I 1 pay lay tay the railway fhi fai hare fare e and afterward after waid pawned the the li araia arriage far for or ten pounds s there wa was s a prose prosecution cud end oil oll against this r apan a but it broke down though it got as far is s alie assizes the jury were directed to d eil ell arge him as there thera was no charge against him im Really 1 said sald I 1 in astonishment it eem ri F al a I 1 afi if these fellows could co commie robbery with impunity PI 1 ity raould ouid ibid appear lel ILL aid ald aarl bailem Ra ilem liem 1 if I 1 01 r FU goh 11 sto concluded on page 11 ii j is TV T S E MV irsay from page 9 ry positively positive ely thie they illa yei vei succeeded suc ceede d in insetting TI J hold of nearly all sorts gorts of things rifles they haye have had several times and most Talu tala valuable able abie ones too they got a hors horse from ireland which ther they sold in lincoln shire shiro they very dic fic nearly n aly got a prize cow from de devonshire von vou shire washing machines are common things thugs with ith them 4 musical sie sic al in in str r erti elti are ai plentiful 4 prize pigs p prize ii ze turkeys and fowls and prize dogs they have boned fifty tons of oil cake a polar bear ear oar a skeie skeleton t on from a london school of anatomy nearly a whole cargo of timber lots of wine books dooks they dont seem to have much regard for but nearly everything else they have had hadi through their fingers latterly wi we haye have managed to choke them off a little when N people get a parcel or lotof think is i ut not all aqua squa square re they s sedda senda m message to obie ofie oneff af us dire directly cily and we hang bang about till one of the firo firm comes to make inquiries and of course wei we put a stop atop to the affair at onge once once directly we knoer bonk our customer we send a atele telegraphic message to fo the owner onel of the goods and the reply immediately is to stop them leaving the station next morning there is a letter commonly indeed h a messenger we gave the public dabile hundreds of pounds worth of goods in thi this s ways waya way a e the firm was wag always miserably poor but latterly they must bave have been ilea near starvation and probably they their will be opening opening an establishment in some ome other othe r large town then you can exercise a little whole soma sometimes sai sal said d I 1 to mr do these precious rascals ras cats eats never attempt to dispute your authority why says mr bailem we know our custom customers qi pretty well weil noy not you yon seg see see when we hirst first Attempted this game they blustered and perhaps we were rather afraid of burning our fingers bev bu the names of the members of the lo 10 long lim jim firm became so familiar to us and their the ir persons were we re so to familiar to the police that we laugh laughed ed af a their threats they have impudence enough jd ifo r anything and dud perhaps they ahey inai may try an action some som ie of tuese fuese baay laay against a detective for detaining their goods why continued con tinned he after a little littie pause paule for both of us had ran rau aground alid and li hardly rd knew ew whit what to say they brought a do iio blema biman ns s agent to Cotton chester one day to get back some prize pigs but he succeed the way was this the thie nobleman bi bre d dg prize j animals of nearly dearly every very kind and he had been taken in in with sois borne somme fellows who bought bou glit a lot of valuable turkeys from him the transaction w was s finished by letter ietter and ho he never saw t be the purchaser nor their money either cither well wk he ke had bad some beautiful fowls and a fine dog stoia stolen from his yards and aud soon afir he had a ietter fetter letter ietter from Cotton chester asking him to sell a prize bulland bull buli and jofh see he fancied the writer might be the fellow who had otolea S fol dol u ft hii ili his fowls and his dog 0 moreover he had sold some prize pigs to another branch of the firm and und his agent thought he would get them altogether if he came to Cotton chester but he and from that da day Y to this my lord lard ha has never soen seen so en his animals alli aili mals nor his animals anim worth wellar well Wel lir air continued the commercial gentleman m X K was lali perfectly satisfied with my lay inquiry and al after iter shaking hands hand with mr bailem Nai Na ilem lemand lemund and thanking himi himl him left with ae the impression that the law laws of or engla england nd warp made for h kot wot for thieves if we had a little bit muro moro of police da despotism it would sate save honcik people a lot jot ot of f vexation and expense 1 thaou aar said 1 I you gentle gentie nin uin who cut ut about the country to sell bell your your good goods would be the first to cry out against it there is no cure continued 1 I aa ai I 1 lighted rny ruy codle to but but bat publicity and common suse g nc A geide iride id 1 fhe rk of losing a cua customer tomer thul thui th ui of or losing his aad aud ab nb honest nian man could complin in ifa if a dealer asked ready mony I 1 a pi i ns lis r sy 00 04 As are ure 6 riger it sifi air about h hit hil 1 ii 1 the right nail onil on the hend head said stiv com corn forcial Baer mor cial as us he nodded a good night to me I 1 |