"Wot's up?" ses the policeman, staring 'ard at my little party.

I was instructed to defend a man at Hertford Sessions for stealing a wheelbarrow, and unfortunately the wheelbarrow was found on him; more unfortunate stillfor I might have made a good speech on the subject of the animus furandithe man not only told the policeman he stole it, but pleaded "Guilty" before the magistrates.

I asked the policeman when he came into the witness-box if he examined carefully the footprints at the gate where the men entered.

''No, you won't,' sings out Jerry, and with that he jumps out of bed right at me, and Putty Henderson he comes at me from the other side, and, between the two, they gave me the worst lickin' I ever got in my born days, and then they dragged me down stairs and kicked me out the front door, and I had hardly time to pick myself up before I saw a policeman about a block off, and if he hadn't been a fat one he'd had me sure.

D'ye hear me?' "'Fetch a policeman, Peter,' ses Ginger.

He now met a policeman who looked at him questioningly.

I don't wonder that two and a half hours elapsed while I thus wandered on in the dark and deserted streets; my sole astonishment is that I ever found the station at all that night, or rather close to it a policeman, who showed me the way.'

Besides, doubts as to his own ability arose within him; it was all very well to practice his magic there alone, but he had not yet tried it on anybody except the janitor; and when he had begun by discovering several red-eyed rabbits in the janitor's pockets that intemperate functionary fled with a despondent yell that brought a policeman to the area gate with a threat to pull the place.

I don't want a lot o' clumsy policemen interfering in my business.

He told him plainly that if he did not he would send a policeman after him.

This mysterious convoy excited the curiosity of the railway officials; they questioned the policemen, but these knew nothing.

In order to accomplish this political object, they exploded a bomb as nearly under his Majesty's carriage as they could manage, but instead of murdering the Emperor they killed a policeman.

Yes! and you loved to take in earnest vague Hanoverian threats of possible arrest for your baby-treason, and, for some time, I know, you never passed a policeman without a dignified tremor, as of one who might at any moment find a lodging in the Tower.

"What's all this?" demanded the older policeman.

"I liked every thingthe policemen in their little boxes at the street corners, the officers in their fur coats, the cabmen, every-body.

The officer then called up another policeman, and Bill again asked: "How many of you are there now?" "Two," was the reply.

Besides his cook and personal attendants he took with him some policemen.

She brought it to me, and set the policeman to watch him.' 'What a dear, good woman!

You did time a couple of years ago for knocking out a policeman.

"I never tickled a policeman in my life.

One can't turn a policeman into a skilled worker at a moment's notice.

We also noticed a policeman amongst the company.

The best thing that the giver of a private ball can do under these circumstances, is to engage a policeman with a lanthorn to attend on the pavement during the evening, and to give notice during the morning at a neighbouring cab-stand, so as to ensure a sufficient number of vehicles at the time when they are likely to be required.

The same thought, no doubt, occurred to Simmonds, for, after ordering the policeman in the hall to call the ambulance, he returned and began a careful search of the room, using his electric torch to illumine every shadowed corner.

(I had the greatest difficulty in persuading the Museum policeman, who was attracted by my cry of agony, that I was not intoxicated, but merely suffering from a transient indisposition.)