WHEN ONE IS A CROWD.

Mataura Ensign, 15 January 1914, Page 5

WHEN ONE IS A CROWD.

• nh° vory P rese nce of so many police in Dublin makes for hilarity," says 'The Times,' writing of the Labor trouble* there. "They; are so ridiculously big, and they speak as though from Olympus. A policeman told a friend of mine the other day how he had 'moved on" a man in Grafton Street. 'I seen him standin' there be, Noblott's shop an' I says to him, "Look here, mo fine follow, you move on out o' tin:; now. I've been watchin' ye this long time am' ye're up to no good." "I wasn't here five minits ago," says lie. "I don't care whether ye were or not," says I. "You move on now without any more oul' chat or I'll charge ye." "What's my ofttnce?" ■ says he. "Ye're loiterin'," says I. | "Isn't every wan else loiterin' as well as mo?" says ho. "You're collectin' a | crowd." says I. "How could Ibe collectin a crowd," says he, "an' there .■only meself in it?" "Go on out ■>' that now," says I. "If 1 say wan'* a I crowd, wan's a crowd." ' " •