POLITE TO THE POLICE.

NZ Truth, Issue 69, 13 October 1906, Page 7

POLITE TO THE POLICE.

That's a golden rule to follow m your pilgrimage through^ life, Kindly note it, and remember, for with '. wisdom it is rife, ( i That although m \vrathful moments, when the air is full of strife, ' You may swear at all the neighborhood, and bullyrag your wife, • You must always^ be polite -to a policeman. Sarah Ellen, cook and housemaid, would have been the first;; -to hold That. so wise a rule should be inscribed m characters of gold; , ' ' : She was haughty to,, the milkman, to the * baker she was cold, •' And she called the postman "Liar 1" when choice anecdotes he told, But she always was polite to a policeman. She remembered .how her family, especially ■ her dad, •■< ' " ": ; Had persistently, ignored the rule, with con- • sequences sad; >. . : She felt sure, although her dad when "oiled" oft carried on like mad. He'd have got off with a fine, and those two "moons" he'd ne'er' have had, If he'd only been polite to a' policeman. So when Sarah, at the "airy" gate, demure and sweetly shy, ' .• ' Saw the noble .form of P.C. Snoop perambulating by, ■■' She observed that something like a wink, obscured his near-side" eye, And, as nobody Was looking, she returned it on the sly, , For she wished to be polite to a policeman. •

:lose of the war, as Governor, still living, i years. And politeness brought its own rewaz-d, fo,r m the twilight grey He oft halted, and conversed with her ; and needless perhaps to say, He at last 'confessed to Sarah that she\ filched' his heart away, And she murmured, m her day-dreams/i •*., shall be his bride some day!" , * All because she'd been polite to a holier man. / ' ' - In reality .he meant not to be rfaught '.i. wedlock's snares. /" ( All he wished for was to Spoon with her and also to go shares ,;" In the suppers sh.e provided; for, defying future swears, . -< r She so worked it that 6ne master and tlj "missis" above sta-irs Should m their tur^i 1 be polite to a police man. But, as proof that c'en a. golden rule mn,\ m a s P£&J£(H|p 6 Be not jso?&*\ '; %d to follow, we're per The^^ ] - .•,.,:-'..■•-"■. l^arah m a sense v.m;s^v^V »tain she would no! • - '.'•. ■ R. polite to a polico- ;' . : / ■■: fI)SS CHIDERDOSS.