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OPPOSED TO BOYS SMOKING.

He was a tramp ! It is not necessary to give the description of clothes that he was arrayed in, neither his good looks ; it is sufficient to know that he was a tramp. He was standing beneath the friendly shade of a lamp post, gazing suspiciously at a small boy who unsuspiciously ignited a lucifer and lighted a cigar stub. With six long strides he crossed the street, and grabbed that boy by the collar of his coat, and snatched that stub bald-headed; then threatenly vociferated ; ' Boy, do you know what I've a good mind to do with you ? To send you up for six years. Do you hear ?' Then giving him a gentle shake or two, and displaying an old fireman's badge, he continued, 'Do you see what lam ? I'm a detective, and don't you dare smoke in the street again—without your father's consent !' And with these parting words he turned about and complacently smoked that surprised boy's stub.

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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 4

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OPPOSED TO BOYS SMOKING. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 4

OPPOSED TO BOYS SMOKING. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 4