A CREDIT TO THE FORCE.
Uttoxeler boasts of a policeman not feisily daunted. Patrolling his heat the other day, this heroin a felt hel- ! met came upon a large elephant very Comfortably strolling along and browsing upon the tipper branches of the trees which grow by the waysfiJe.l “ Come, move on out of this,” said the policemen. “ Off you go, or I’ll run you in.” But the elephant took no tootice, and went on playing with the birds’nests on the topmost boughs of roadside elms. “ Oh, you won’t, won’t you,” observed Robert; then, with no more fear of the huge beast than if it were a cold pie, the XJttoxeter constable caught hold of the raamhioth by one of his flapping Oars and led him to the local lock-up, fbout , halfla-mile,distant, Shortly afterwards Mr* Elephant was claimed by a showinan> \vhp had. been greatly alarmed at his unexplainable; absence from his (the Show man’s) boo th. This gallant constable: (unlike some men who are in adVance of their age) was born too late. He would have been invaluable as a member of the Faroe Under Mr inspector Noah in die. Ark.
Fqitf remainder of news see last page, .
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Kumara Times, Issue 1028, 17 January 1880, Page 3
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198A CREDIT TO THE FORCE. Kumara Times, Issue 1028, 17 January 1880, Page 3
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