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NIGHT THOUGHTS.

BY A VERY SPECIAL CONSTABLE.

Two long lines of red points, like hover ing fire-flies, were the ends of their cigarettes, and they were all talking French. They were the workers from the "great" munitions factory n far away, where they had received that second tule phonie wurning which means Lights

The first time I arrived at the police station as an accredited member the

aut." It is manned entirely by Belgian County Reserve Constabatury in order to mechanis getting a bit of their own record the tact that I was inewsling nu i linek.“ night duty, I was rapressed by the siemd bush that pervaded the place, furi the hour was hat Is . The niform man on station duty came and cr "on tiptor, folger to lips. This, I thought,

is the divinity that heilges about police station, the correct atmosphere for the majesty of Law. I was not quite right. Only the ground flour was official. The upper storey was domesdie, and there was a sleeping baby over our heads.

Since then I have acquired a rich and LONDON, to whom the necessary funds prolonged experience of night dutysten THE BOARD OF TRADE make a til two or two tiff six, in all sorts of charge for payment of claims out of weather and places. Some of my fellaw. munies deposited in the "COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT" the countables will only go forth after dark Bank of England.

in cooples. Like Stevenson's peasant of Fourzithas, who refuses to show him the

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sie wish it was Sunday night

Believing us I do that doctors have largely hat sight of the science of health in their eager pursuit of the science of disuse I think we specials" might reasonably be empowered to enter dwe afice-bouses at night for the purpose of opening the bedroom windows. In the scented sweetness and purity of an early summer morning it cuts me to the quick to see so many upper chambers hermeti cally sealed. The smallest houses are the worst offenders. The less room there is inotage for fresh air, the more religiously is the stale preserved. right expel burglars should be extended

to quieroves.

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But very many of the houses on my beats have all their opper windows open, whatever the season of the year, often the lower windows as well, and sometimes the doors. I do not, interfere decline way, they any, fuit noir, je ne to call the kettle black. Those people 20-40 sortiraj pas de la parte.". It baby habir are right, allways. It may be true that and preference to go alone. Thought an open door will teapta saint, but it without talk is pleasant and profitable.would not tempt a burglar: which proves Talk without thought, especially for hours, is unthinkable.

I do wish that I was a Lady's man (My Lass from Glasgow Town 0006 I never heard Father

the laugh so much before

(It's a grand old song-

hovered in the heart of the night" and increased to a realling roug as the crew of ussassins descended to a thousand feet sad cieled about just over our heads, looking for a light. A few minutes later, the earth trembled under nur-feet-and- the whole sky melted into ghastly light

us the missionaries of Kultur unloaded their explosives at the opposite extremity of our town--in a buge field..

We are very useful. Sometimes your dent wanders suggestively near your own ronftree in the early hours that are wo chill and theampanjonable; and if your steal in, just to ranke are there are no hostile aircraft in the larder, you may be just in time to prevent some coller and milk carelessly left.on the gas-stove from boiling over and possibly causing an explosion. At much times we really act with prompt decision.

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One must be a special on night duty before he can realise what silence in od Ouran be. Meredith speaks of a fireside silence as that humming atillness in which one may fancy one hears the poid- night Fates embryos. That I have been in that belt busily stirring their

of woodland when even the Fates slept. and no cry even of owl or corncrate or nightjar. It is a silence that seems to bepumb the ears and make you wonder if you have been suddenly smitten with total deafness, so that you long to reassure yourself by shouting. But you dare not that a saint is inferior to a burglar, being shatter that silence, and you only more temptable. fl a burglar has decided stealthily and timidly clear your throst to burgle a certain house, he will instead. Burgle it whether the pors and One's chief consolation for A túlter windows" are Eerie at times? Very much so, ly if when the enterprising burglar goes Mocha), is the thought of the summer

cpen or shut.

Batnight in winter (apart from salvaged beat often traverses eighty eres of a burgling he sees a house with all doors mornings, seen and to wee. natural woodland. by unrrow and overhung and windows open. he naturally assumesave, me the sight of sunrise which paths. In a mist of curliest dawn some that it contains nothing worth burglinganly "specials" and sentinel soldiers saw. of the trees take on the sinister shape

of the off-hanap trunks drawn by

not even rare microbes.

Arthur Rackham and Heath Robinson. A laly once asked me what I should

do if I saw a Zeppelin in the offing You grip your ashplant tighter, gooke- ** within my enostablewick," she ought to flesh creeps down your calves, acute have said, according to myNoted and tingling round your scalp. Halt ashamed, Instructions." Having consulted that you switch on your flash-lary but com-pocket authority, I replied that I should forting and indispensable tinned lightning call upon it to desist; and that if it then persisted in., zeppeing, I should take it

(It is a niggardly shume that we should in charge. The usual procedure is to have to buy our own batteries.' I 'kup- touch the accused on the shoulder and nge it would be a disciplinary offence say I am a Special Constable and arrent to go in a national procession of protest you for (here state the charge). But if

the Home-Office.),

you arrive after the breach of the peace is over, you have no power of arrest." Wa always hope the breach will he quite com.

That ashplant, which replaces the enu- bersome truncheon of insuficient reach"

good-company, and it how been un piete before we arrive.

to do useful work. It will instantly

Have I seen a Zeppelin? Once only- scatter the most impassioned Feline at the moment when it found a tearthl duettists whose blood.tdling efforts ever Nimesis in the sky. I saw then the "shivered to the tingling stars. Wish vision, that wea in Milton's eye when he well of me, suburban sleepers. I am wrote:- persuaded that no ordinary uniform man per troubled in enter your garden and purpo furious fight the four-footed.

Home Sweet Home fienda who would murder, sleep, the

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