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She explained as they left the gallery: "First, the art of riding on the buses. Oh, it is an art, you know. You must appreciate the flower-girls and the gr-r-rand young bobbies. You must learn to watch for the blossoms on the restaurant terraces and roll on the grass in the parks. You're much too respectable to roll on the grass, aren't you? I'll try ever so hard to teach you not to be.
"He jumped off the ferry-boat to save a little girl," said Jim, seeing the storm brewing, and desirous of putting in a good word for his friend. This declaration was received with a guffaw, not one of the hearers believing a word of it. "Jumped off to get away from the Bobbies," sneered the bartender. "If you don't get out of here quicker'n lightning I'll hand you over to them."
Explanations followed, and after the wounded dignity of the two officers of the Force had been soothed with sundry glasses of port wine and a written list of the names of all concerned, including that of the mummy, they departed. "You take my advice, bobbies," I heard the indignant Sergeant declaim outside the door, "and don't you believe things is always what they seem.
Jane still leading, they made for the exit. But the first loud man rushed chivalrously in. "Perlice!" he cried. "Two bobbies a-coming." "Here!" said the second loud man. "Here, misses. Get on the wheel. They'll never get ye if ye sit in the middle back to back." He jumped on to the wheel himself, and indicated the mathematical centre. Jane took the suggestion in a flash; Audrey was obedient.
"So, Guv," piped the Old Un cheerily, "we're out for the criminal's gore specially me. We're goin' to track the perisher to 'is 'orrible doom "'Where'er he be To th' gallers tree Oh, Guv, we mean t' bring him; An' laugh with j'y When nice an' 'igh The blinkin' bobbies swing 'im." "And you think you know who it was?" "I do, Guv, I do!" nodded the Old Un.
But I cannot recall a time when there was not a police barracks in my native High Street. Its inmates were all "bobbies" or "peelers," out of compliment to "Bobby" Peel, who called them officially into being in 1829. I know no better grounds than those afforded by a baby memory that the particular policeman whom I supposed to have created the Creator was a somewhat remarkable person in his way.
Dodd at the principal inn till morning, and scoured the town for intelligence. He inquired of all the policemen; described his men, and shrewdly added out of his intelligence, "Both splashed and dirty." No, the Bobbies had not seen them. Then he walked out to the side of the town nearest London, and examined all the dealers in food.
They are taught to hate work. And they fairly revel in their hatred of every one and every thing that is not of their own miserable class." There was a note of gentle authority in the Interpreter's deep voice, and in his dark eyes there was a look of patient sorrow, as he replied, "Yes, Helen, all that you say of our Bobbies and Maggies is true.
The mother was left to her rapture that night. In the morning Falcon told his tale. "At two P.M. a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square no bobbies on the lurk.
"Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the police, then?" Gavroche contented himself with replying: "Brat! Nobody says 'police, they say 'bobbies." The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing.
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