A CONSTABULARY SLIP.
Reading edition
BY H. G. PAINE.
When the snow falls in the city, Oh, it seems a dreadful pity! And it costs a lot to cart it all away; But the boys who on the side- Walk make the dangerous slide Would like to have the snow come every day. Oh, it's fun to hear them shout, As they slip and slide about, Like some eerie, cheery spirits of the storm; But just call out, "Cheese the cop!" And how suddenly they stop! For the "copper" has a duty to perform. "Now yous fellies git a gait," He exclaims, and, if they wait, "Come, now, yous, jus' chase yourselves right off de block!" But I should not be surprised If he often sympathized With his victims, and his heart were not a rock. For 'twas but the other night, When no roundsman was in sight, That I saw a "copper" running down the street. Was he chasing of a thief? Don't you err in that belief— He was sliding on each slide along his beat.
ONE-LEGGED DUCKS.
nce a gentleman reproved his negro servant for serving a duck for dinner to which there was only one leg. He suspected Sam of having eaten the missing limb.
"Oh, no, sir," replied Sam; "these ducks have only one leg!"
"Indeed!" said the master. "I must see them."
So the next morning he told Sam to show him the one-legged ducks. Sam conducted his master to the poultry-yard, and pointed to half a dozen ducks, each standing on one leg near the pond.
"There, sah!" he exclaimed.
The master waved his arms, and cried out, "Shoo! shoo!" and the ducks scampered away.
"How about that?" he said, turning to Sam.
"That's right, sah," returned Sam, calmly; "but why didn't yo' shoo de oder duck, las' night?"