POLICE


A man who was "wanted" in Russia had been photographed in six different

positions, and the pictures duly circulated among the police department.

A few days later the chief of police wrote to headquarters: "Sir, I have

duly received the portraits of the six miscreants. I have arrested five

of them, and the sixth will be secured shortly."





"I had a message from the Black Hand," said the resident of Graftburg.

"They told me to leave $2,000 in a vacant house in a certain street."



"Did you tell the police?"



"Right away."



"What did they do?"



"They said that while I was about it I might leave them a couple of

thousand in the same place."





Recipe for a policeman:



To a quart of boiling temper add a pint of Irish stew

Together with cracked nuts, long beats and slugs;

Serve hot with mangled citizens who ask the time of day--

The receipt is much the same for making thugs.



--_Life_.





_See also_ Servants.



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