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Show An Illuminating Postcard. A young girl of plebeian ancestry achieved fame as an actress iu London. Lon-don. Feeling the necessity, however, of a rest from her labors, she wrote to her uncle, a police sergeant of a country coun-try village, asking liiin if she might come and stay with him to recuperate. She ended her note: "Please send a P. C. to say If I may come." A few days later her landlady rushed upstairs with an awesstricken countenance coun-tenance a policeman wanted her! The girl descended with an ominous feeding feed-ing at her heart, says London Tit-Bits. "If you please, miss," said the stolid being who confronted her, eyeing her with stern disapproval, "I'm the P. C. what you asked your uncle to send, but I may as well tell you straight away as I'm a respectable married man. Your uncle's prepared to take you in if you're, willing to make yourself your-self useful feed the pig, clean his of-tice, of-tice, and the two cells." |