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The First Book of Eve

Eve Becomes a Policewoman.

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With the idea of releasing an able-bodied “bobby” for action, Eve determines to join the women’s police, and is seen preparing herself for her day’s beauty—or rather duty

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She found there was no difficulty in stopping the male traffic, although jealous and inefficient females evinced a desire to “pass along”—with their snub-noses in the air. Everything was going beautifully until—

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—a gust of wind seriously disturbed the equanimity of our little policewoman in the manner above pictorially described. It ended in stopping the traffic for miles round—

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—as, of course, her damaged coiffure had to be rearranged, amid sarcastic comments from the females “afore mentioned”—

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—which for once thoroughly upset our tired little heroine, who was herself “taken up” dead beat and conveyed home by gallant members of the sister services

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