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Show SET THE BURGLAR RIGHT. Squire Was Angered at Dullness ol the Intruder. This Is one of the many Htorles to'd of old Squire Latham, a Plymouth county attorney of some years bnck It fully Illustrates his coolness, and lovb of method. Ho wos awakened one night by h'.s wife, who told hhn she thought there wero burglnrs In tho house. The squlro put on his dressing gowit' and went downstairs. In the back hnll he found a rough looking man trying to open n door that led Into the bnck yard. Tho burglar had unlocked the door, and was pulling It with nil his might. Tho squire, seeing the robber's pro-dlcamcnt. pro-dlcamcnt. called to him: "It don't open that way, you Idiot! It slides back!" Boston Mcrald. |