Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
The Cop and the Pie
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twice sint yex articles, but feor sem,
 teime pa~ht nothin has been aflhel i eemin to me notice that oi thought
 would he al interest te sear'r re s,iers. Af coorse our citizens ee interested in our foine polsce department, an whiu oi heard af a little incident that was aither happinin 10 wan sf our feinesi lasht Monday mafntn. oi siz to mcsilf, if yex laugh li, lie world in on il OCT how can they laugh wid yex, as the sayin Is. Me frtnd. officer -. ei'll not tell yes his name. thought il loo good 10 kape and told 1t in the hoosm af his family. The family thought II good wan and told 1t eonfidintialls to frind GOT two, and oi hasen to hilp them kape the sacret by contidin Il to you're raders.
 Whin me frind the cop was comin down Woodstock aviny about thray in the marnin, on the sivinth inst, ne heard stealthy stips behoind him. Iv- cry vans in awhoilc thee was grunt. The artficer sig To himsilf, sig he, oi know the grunt that comes from ing, tis not it. oi dunno the grunt af an Indian, but they arll lift these parts years ago. Thin what can it bc. six he. The mysterious feotstips Band the nys- terious grunts follied him lo the Rap. tist church, and thin me frind deeoided to face his pursuer and demand his business. He drew hts gun and sud dinly turned around, and there close upon his haies was great big white animal weighin 4oo pounds.
 If the same had appeared to me frind Clancy, who patrols twinty-third strate near Broadway, he would have hoiked for the top af the fiat oisn build in, ,thinkin polar bear had ishkaped from the Zoo. Not so the brave Put nam guardian. He had been raised in farmin community and imnledi ately he set oies on the haste he knew 1t for pig.
 Now af coorse the arfficer wanted to do his duty, but the quistion was, what was that duty. No quistion but hts prisoner had run away from home, hui perhaps he was af age and had roight 10 lave. The city healthy arfficcr sid the lookup was mol fit to kape pig in
 so how could he lock him up? Int haste had no collar and name plate on 1 and refused to give his risidenoe. Hut
 he couldn't stand their kapin the pig
 company until dayloight, and il wa,
 gettin time to go oil duty. He thin da cided he would lave the baste To sniff 1 for himsilf The pig however rafused
 to shift, havin taken fancy to thu foine looking arflicef, and follied hln
 about loike Mafyis little lam, iyvef, little whoile nippin al the polaeemani
 legs list to lit him know he was sthil
 wid him. The arfllccr begins to gil
 nervous and foinally gitting mao
 sweipes al the pig with his nnighi
 stick but the pig only thinks he |
 playin wid him, and lodges and eome'
 up for more. To arouse some af tn,
 neighbors is the arfficer's mkt move
 and he inquiries does the sl'apy man 1T
 the pajamas who answers the doc
 know has any wan losht pig. Mean
 whole the arfliicer's companion come on the piazzi and sittin on his holnt | figs gives the man the wink not to tel
 and sure moike the man says yis h,
 don know. Of go the afiiicer and hi | ehum who is gettin frolIicksome ans 1 persists in hisiting ;he bite coat
 hales.
 The situation bees gittin serious ai the haste begins to nip harder ant
 harder disregardin the polacemin's DO l lite reauists for him te stbop. Foinal ly the ariiicer takes to the top af | l slhone wall His inimy thrles 10 folly
 him, but he cantget up. The arfiice 1 walks the wall wid his companion Of l the sidewalk below. At the ind of tn.
 wall is yard wid fince around 1t
 In through the gate goes misther pig
 whin quick as flash the alert ofiicia jumps to the ground, shuts the gate
 and his inimy is incarcerated.
 While all this is bein enacted thu
 neig hborhood Is quietly reposed 1T
 drameland little reolizing that thu guardian af their slumbering hours i' folghtin . stragetic battle for safety little knowin whether he will be there
 or whether it will be but . bit af blu' cloth and few brass buttons that vii
 till the soilent tale in the marnin d
 how he single handed fit his soilent foe and saved their swate drsmss iron disturbance.