Show bandits seal promise with kisses 0 rk ASHING TONS dirty dozen has haa W W been reduced by three judge de da lacy did it han he ijadi jaree very emall boys accused of stealing cigars pipes lpes milk avid and bread to kiss their parents arents and promise never never lever again to try to emulate the forty thieves or any other bad people and to turn back to the owners of the ahe property three dollars and some sects to compensate for the loss and remember said the judge keep away train from the gang you call the dirty dozen it if you must have a tang gang make up one or of good companions who will teach you something that will do you some good judge de lacy has a way ot of making boy tell him lust just what the boy bay Is when ichen he has taken anything that does not mot belong to him now what would you rail the boy who took a watch of 0 yours and rive ave it back the biggest hoy boy hung his head and twisted bis big cap and wanted to sink brough the floor tell me now what would you call him the biggest boys boyk lips framed the words A thief and in that way clerk harper listening attentively knew that the boy had pleaded guilty E each ach of them did for that matter the judge judea ordered the middle sized you youngster agster to step around arid and kiss hiss his mother and ask her to forgive him anti and to understand that ho he would naver never never do it again and would have nothing to do with the dirty dozen doren r the middle sized boy sulked the barit of at tho the proud rover of the spanish main told him that to kiss a worn vom iii an in court even his mother was a puerile thing to do kiss me whispered the mother the boy still stood debating with himself do you want to go to tho the reform rearm school 7 thundered the judge and then the proud rover ot of thon spanish main turned and fled and the erstwhile dirty his mothers little boy aka agall 11 i atod was caught in a loving pair ot of arms and tears ran down the faces ot of the boy and his mother and several other women who were in court and the other dirty two had to kiss their fathers that the ends of justice might be met |