Editorial note — Susan Fenimore Cooper
Reading edition
{police, old and new = the first modern English police force had been established in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel — from which the British nickname of "bobby" for policeman.}
Reading edition
{police, old and new = the first modern English police force had been established in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel — from which the British nickname of "bobby" for policeman.}