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| | Irish-American Policeman |
 | | Though the policeman was in a fury of natural indignation, and the fellow having dared to dispute this law, I approached him and said in a mollifying voice, " A contentious scoundrel, that!" "Oh, d--- every fool of them," he replied. |
 | | A policeman once in a little Donegal town was examining a witness in the prosecution of a publican who had violated the Sunday liquor law, and he propounded the question, "On the vartue of yer oath, were ye or were ye not a boney fidey traveler?". |
 | | The Irish policeman, with an heroic calm, stands in the center of danger and with his finger beckons this interrupted stream of humanity and that, to flow forward, and the confidence-inspiring ease of the man nerves the repressed mass to walk with assurance the gauntlet of quick danger. |
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