AN INNOCENT BOY.
A small boy cyclist was' riding early in the evening without a light, and wasstopped by a policeman, who asked him in gruff tones -where his light was. "VVhy, it's here," exclaimed the rider, ■in surprise. "Yes, bufc it's oufc," solemnly asserted the man. "Well, it was lighted at that last turn." "Why it's cold. Couldn't have been lighted this evening," triumphantly announced the officer. "Pooh ! That thin- metal cools in a minute. I'll light that lamp and" wait until it gets hot, put it out, then ride to the next corner and back, and when I return it'll be cold." . "All right; try it," assented the acute policeman. The boy .lighted the lantern, waited tmtil it grew, hot, turned it out, and started, and he is going yet.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132AN INNOCENT BOY. Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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