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Show HAVING A NICE, QUIET TIME. A Follceman Who Was Assigned the Tnsk of Subduing Roys. ""It doesn't alwu)s pay to havo ft good record " ruminated the policeman "of lending personality" as he placed his solltar) louiuli nn an Isolated 'beat" of one nf the null) Ing precincts "I thought I stend pretty high with tho 'ninlii squeeze' until when the beats wero changed at the beginning nf the mouth I was assigned to thin reservatlnn My race must have expressed ex-pressed in) vexitinii, because the lieutenant ciimn to inc uttervvuid and said "'Nnw, Hill, I know )ou will wonder whv 1 have wilt nu out to that tall timber and 1 II letl )nn Ihc reason The small mere hauls nut there havo In en having n crent deal nr trouble with mlschievuus bo)s, who harass them In nil sort of w.i)s Now, no policeman that ban ever heeu on duly nn that "'eat" has evei ben able Io cute h an) nf the bo to make an ex. ample nf hint 1 know ou carry and cm easllv overtake one of these Juvenile cllsturheis Weve cot to bieak up the "gang ' and 1 think )ou nie the best man In do It ' 'Well sir.' cnntlnufd the policeman 'I've been on the new beat' onl) u week, and its hern exiltlng e-noush at times', I assure )OU I hive entaged In dalh font races with a gnng and flther m) wind Is not nearly as good ss it used to he or those kids sie all comers In th splinting line I flnallv managed to nmhu'h one the othn day and then nu real trouble began As led Mm down the street In the direction direc-tion of the Btorc from which he had pilfered a walermcllon his mMhei darted out 'rom behind a vvoodihed and assailed me with a club and nil manner of epithets ulteied In dlslolnted l'ncll'h She was soon Joined by sev ehal nelghbni women who hooted nnd gabbled at me for several blot They btraine moie thieatenlng as ic- rilment Increased and at li,.th I was obliged to releane mv hold on Ihe boy to save my uniform from destruction destruc-tion and avoid peisonnl Injury A woman mob Is, )OU know a great deal harJer to handle than a rabb composed com-posed nf men "Well, the boy got away, and I m now dally saluted with uncomplimentary uncomplimen-tary lemarks from the dotlur mnthrrs of hopeful offspring I can see a bad month on this boat Any policeman lonkli g for a nice quid time Is welcome wel-come to hoiik out here when the ntxt change ot assignments Is made" |