. Small boys in big boots : a story for children of all ages . , he wisely hopes that the very hearingof each report by all the other detectives may stimulate someboyish mind to a suggestion that may be of value, or bring tosome sharp youths remembrance some fact that would have beentrivial in itself, but, placed with what the other one is telling, mayamount to a great deal. With these precociously crafty ideas in his head, Footlightsmutters : Now, then, Patrol Number One, ejaculate ! Then Officer Jones, who has been stammering from very eager-ness, shouts out : Ive struck a cold-blooded murde
. Small boys in big boots : a story for children of all ages . , he wisely hopes that the very hearingof each report by all the other detectives may stimulate someboyish mind to a suggestion that may be of value, or bring tosome sharp youths remembrance some fact that would have beentrivial in itself, but, placed with what the other one is telling, mayamount to a great deal. With these precociously crafty ideas in his head, Footlightsmutters : Now, then, Patrol Number One, ejaculate ! Then Officer Jones, who has been stammering from very eager-ness, shouts out : Ive struck a cold-blooded murder—I that for high? Next he rolls his white-eyebrowed eyesupon the assemblage, who have risen to a boy in excitement, and,grinning at them, cries proudly: Taint manytectives strike acold, clammy assassin at the fust lick. Is it, Cap? Keep quiet ! shouts Footlights to the horrified and excitedassemblage. Remember, youre police-officers, and murder andkilling aint no more to you than it is to doctors. A crime likethis ere one is meat for OFFICER JONES HORRIFIES THE JUVENILE SOCIETY BY HIS REVELATION:? OF PI ZEN _ AND MENT1 AT ST. SERAPHIM YnrNT, LADIES* ACADEMY. THE JUVENILE GUARDIANS OF PEEKSK1LL. 89 Here a clammy calmness coming with his words upon each boy,they all sit down, as their Great Head-center continues : Now then, hop along agin, Officer Jones ! Keep cool, andslap it out ! Well, Cap, you know the furnace in the laundry up at female school upon the hill is out of repair, and so mymother does some of the extree washing for the gal scholars ; fancythings—lace and muslin dresses and flimsy-cracks thatd get mussedto pieces in the school-laundry. Wall, yesterday ma sent me upto mt the wash and bring- it down to our house, as usual. As I was o bringing the clothes back to mother and had got half-way down thehill, I climbed into the field and sat down under the big elm, as Ialways do, to look in the pockets of the dresses for cand
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