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Show NEW OCCUPATION FOR "COP" Guardian of the Peace Also Called Upon to Act as Dlspeller of Nightmares. Occasionally householders require services of policemen that seem extraordinary, ex-traordinary, even to men "who jiave grown qld on the force. Bald a boy to a patrolman: "Axe you the new night policeman on this beat?" The policeman said he was. "Then there's a man around at our house would like to fix things up with you," said the boy. "Can you come?" Mentally rehearsing the crushing rebuke re-buke that he should deliver if request-, ed to condone counterfeiting or kindred kin-dred Illegal practicea, the patrolman accompanied his guide to the first-floor first-floor flat, where a very innocuous-looking innocuous-looking young man sat reading a newspaper. Having satisfied himself that the officer would be on duty that night, the young man said: "I shall sleep in this room, and if you should happen past here about ? o'clock and hear me yelling my lungs out don't get scared and think somebody some-body 1b murdering me, but Just reach in through the window and shake me good and hard. I shall be in the throes of nightmare, that's all, and as, these folks are all strangers to me, maybe. they wouldn't like to come in and wake me up. The night patrolman patrol-man in the street I just moved away from used to perform that little Job for me, and I shall he much obliged if you will do the same." The policeman seemed disinclined to assume the role of disperser of nightmares, but he finally accepted the unique commission. |