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IN THE HANDS OF THE

AStory

Moral.

BY ROBT. MACWHIRTER

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POLICE.

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I see there has been quite a lot and retired to his van for his an of talk in the Telegraph this week beauty aloap For the next ten of going about the police and their minutes or so we might all have couldna tarry overlo methods. Now the police, indiri been pickled oysters for all the I enjoyed the dually and as a body, are worth sound we made, Than two quarry, train bad atop 80, wishing leaving well alone, Ye dever men broke the ice when they companion the best of lu know either when ye may need began to tell each other how opened the door and got out them or they you, as I know from good they were at the quoits, whereupon a yellow, twittering bitter experience the very last from which I inferred that lying streak followed, winging its way time I was home on holiday, about one's prowess warna, neo-joyously in the direction of Dum- Mied ve, Linkeumdoddie isna essarily confined to golf or bowle, fries at an incredible speed. what ye would call an exciting: A farmer kind o' body proceeded late owner, bareheaded and mach kind a'a place, but it's never wise next to confide in me his troubles diebavelled, - was a good third, to measure misfortune from the about turnips that needed rain swinging a wicked right in the siz3 of the instrument, & mosquito and sheep that could be doing direction of my left ear and la much more liable to keep a chap fine without the scab. In the far mouthing language fit to abash thinking o' his nother end than corner was a kont face, for I bad a bargeo. the bull two fields away that seen its owner trying to mend a turns out afterwards to be bear roof in Linkeumdoddie the week

Followed tea in feet of quick ing milk! The sting of the before. He held in one sction in the language of che beo seldom can be measured in band a paper bag, wi' diamond quers (Scottie draughte), my ratio to the size of the hive it hapod holes in containing, as travelling companion made a came raging out of, and petty I afterwards discovered, & Bootch move, gave me one and larceny in our county town Fancy canary and in the other, thou took two. I was just doesna make the prison fare ony what looked to me, from the beginning to introduce some the more paistable. Tru, we usver at any time had a Black Maris on our High Street, but Sandy Waddel, otherwise known aq."flannel-belly," the policeman in my `day. was just as fearsome to us, boys as one mounted bobby keeping back the plebs in the presence of Royalty. As a matter of soleran fact, I'm of the opinion that the smaller the place in which wrong-doing occurs, the bigger the thing appears in the minds of those least concerned wel' it. In a city, such as London, for instance, a man might go to gaol wi'equanitnity, well knowing that bis misdeeds will affect the rainde of but few. Let him, how ever, but come under the bovine gazo of Bailie McNutt, Linkeum doddie's senior Town Councillor, and he may as well bave spent good money on full front page advertisements in the Scottish Press, so completely will he have secured publicity. It cuts both ways, however. The same sort of thing is also very apt to handicap the small-town policeman, for he knows that his judges are legion and that for jury he has the whole countryside. Once a osse is disposed of at Linkoum- doddie Police Court, it doesna therefore necessarily follow that there's an end to it. No, it's very apt to be re-tried and re-tried twixt supper and bed on winter nights for years after. As I said before, it's a bad jab when ye got Into the hands of the police It's the sig of the plate and not the enormity of the offence that counts ranat. Take my own case, for instance.

panny pies. Their owner must have form, when a hand like a ham noticed me wrinkling my nose for fastened itself on my collar and a wit the tall of my eye I could see fierce voice bade me "stop that him bridling, ready to take offence brawling." I turned to find myself at the slightest thing. By and by, literally in the hands of the law in order to save myself from the sye, "you're a good guesser-it effects of a pathological descrip was my prontios noliceman pulsa- tion of sheep scab, I offered my ting wi' pride and looking like as farmer friend a cigar which he if he'd just captured the long-lost promptly pooketed, saying he Jack, the Ripper. His face, like would keep it and have a grand Caledonia, was stern and wild; smoke on New Year's Day. If his upper lip overhung like the

a

A Social Barrier,

pleasures ars but poppies bottom step of a bathing coach. spread, yon chap certainly had For the nonce he was man nice, clean fields. Looking for- proud man, drest in a little brief ward to a smoke six months authority" in tabloid form, the ahead is a form of continence no most concentrated. He told near- likely to be favoured by Chan-ly half of Linkoumdoddie, duly cellore of the Exchequer but is assembled, that he had had his indicative of the character of the eye on me since early morning men among whom I was holiday and that he didns' like the look of ing. The roof expert, him withe me Need I state, the feeling pies and the canary, looked dag was entirely mutual? gare drawn at the when a Reins Out on Bail. Victoria didas' get his length, but My late opponent, sans breath, then a chap canna be expected sans hat, sane pies, sane canary. to carry duty-paid oumsha oigare caught the speaker's eye. Twas distance of ten thousand miles a tale soon told. Ay, a serious and then hand them out like business right enough and it lost picture-house bills. No likely.

nothing in the telling. The man 10 blue then proposed, seconded His enmity visibly increased, by the roof and canary expert, the while he kept looking hard at that prisoner proceed to the police my gold albert and my cycling office. Carried unanimously. stockings. By and by, the two On the way up the High Street quoiting experts nearly lied them. I met a young nephew of mine gelves past their particular station linking a girl. He never let on and before long him wi the he saw me. (I cut him out of my canary and me had the carriage will the week following). Arrived all to ourselves. He immediately at the station; my captor locked began to show bis independence the door on all but our three selves by placing his feat on the cushions and straight way became trans- formenet bim and vindictively ex muted into Sergeant in Charge and pectorating on the floor. I never listened wi judicial gravity to the let on. It wasn't for nothing that charge. After cautioning me in I'd been suffered to travel for the usual manner, he took my Contact With the Law. more than a decade on the statement which he wrote down. But I'd better start at the Hongkong Peak Tram." One I pointed out three errors in beginning. One Saturday, about can't be expected to be on spelling, so he wrote it cut Rood Fair time, I thought "I'd speaking terms wi' a man whom afreab, apologising for the bad like to take a run lato Dumfries, one may have to send for one day | pen. Up to then I had an to fix up one's roof. Can one? idea there were two prisoners but Of course, it wasna quite so easy as all that, for naturally One can't. So I maintained in jedge of my indignation when I Janet,

have frigid silence the appropriate atti-, was shoved alone in a coll which she had to about fifty good and sound, tude of aloofness and superiority, also contained a supply of fire- reasons why she couldna' to the obvious discomfort of my wood and the remainder of the come wil me. But as I aye Bay, fellow-passenger. I had suffered. previous year's crop of potatouN. „difficulties-are-but-made-to-be-He had to buy his own experience. In the meantime, bail had been

overcome. So ten past seven in I should worry!

mentioned and an address given.

the morning se at the station. But instead, he did, and wasna' An hour later Janet arrived, waiting for the first train down a bit clever at biding his feelings nearly out of her senses but in Having a faw minutes in hand either. Now, if I'd been placed as possession of a pound note, and and feeling fine and chirpy, what he was, I'd have offered the insuf- thus secured my release. That must I set to and do but try ferable snob before me a bit of same night she spoke seriously and take a rise out of the pie. I can imagino nothing so about spending the remainder of policeman who was on the plai-likely to break down the social our holiday in America. She also form at the tim- ?. He was just | barrier than to offer an obviously touched on the subject of drink, a bit of a lad, new on the job I superior human being a piece of the beneficial effect of raw beef sbould say by the way be refused Krease congealed tuppenny pie steak on a darkening optic and the Reina Victoria I offered him. Or alternatively, I'd have offered the undesirability of being seen He didna know me, at least all to show him the good points of the at the kirk on the mora be did know of me as that I was | blamed osnary. I'd have pointed The Judgment Seat. Sa a stranger to the place and he had out how to guess the difference I think that on a previous written all over him the country between a cock and a her and occasion I introduced you to my lad's distrust of the new how good the breed was by the erstwhile friend, Bailie McNutt. comer. No, he wouldna have shape of its head. But he did As young chaps we both courted aoigar, his feet werens' sore; neither. All he did was to repeat Maggie Robertson, Maggie was he wasna' waiting on & Scotland the expectoration more contemp-inclined to like me but, instead, Yard man coming by the next. train. In short, he was about the tuously, it seemed, than ever, married a widower withree end, family McNutt, never rightly most negative bobby I ever had

By and by. I could tell from the got over it, and took to the the misfortune to meet. But then long drawn-out whistle that we butchering business shortly after. bs I say, he was young. He had were crossing the main road and One could hardly blame him. Of a good look at me, though. Die that once round the bead of the course, that was YOLIS Jike seems to quicken bis percep- Kirkmill plantation, we would Maggie has now eight hairOB ÎN tion and it's a silver spoon to a soon be at Linkcumdoddie Station, her own right. Ay, time brings bottle of cold Cascade, he spent My companion sensed, the same great changes.

In the Train.

The Accident.

ago.

the whole of that morning thing. He pleoed the ples on the I want you now to observe the trying his prentice hand at coat beside him and stood up, McNutt, dignifying no, that's writing, e

description of fus

fue fumbling in one of his trouser to the right word sitting, on the What made him maddest pockets for his ticket. He found Bench, his bald head shing like was me, just before I got lato the it just at the same instant as the a sixpence in a sweep's hand, his train, pointing to a mole I've got train crossed the points to go into other features as classical as a at the back of my neck. He the local platform, Thereupon full bag of boiler river washers avveed but didna' let ou

ho gave a lurch and before you and his stomach resting on his could say knife, those pies kueos like no up ended Rugby football. As an indication 01 I needns: tell ye how I enjoyed were so much hen's meat, so myself at Dumfries that day. I'll heavily did he sit on them. Nor what's inside that bald head, just admit right away that maybe I was that all for at the moment let me explain that at a Provost's hid more drink than ony self of impact he must have let go the dinner, he once was known to proud of my bald respecting man had ony right, to paper poke, for immediately say I'm 1 have, but thea Dumfries te one of following the event, our carriage bend. Ye canna have brains and those places where you've got to was full of enraged and/or hair as well. Look at the women? be that way before ye can even hysterical canary if the latter. And that was the man is whose start to enjoy yourself. It was it was infectious, for I laughed hands lay my fate that Monday coming back on the train at also. During the next thirty moraing night, though, when I first, sa to seconds there was much uncen

peak, came before the public: Bored language but it was difficult ore There wore quile. a fow in for me to determine whether the le carriage besides myself by the profanity was dizoolad at myself time the guard blew his whistle or the canary. Probably both, Inman, abiria; Ath Kostries for a Ohialogu

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