BRUIN AS A POLICEMAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 36

BRUIN AS A POLICEMAN.

The following story is going the round of the Irish papers .under the. heading •) Be Sure Your Sin WIU Find You Out".:— A man was, travelling in Ireland with a bear, by which , he made His, living. Visiting a humble cottage he asked the occupant for a night's lodging. This was conceded, but there was a difficulty as to where, the bear was to find a lodgment. After some .consideration the owner of the cottage bethought himself of the pigstye, where he had a sow and three young pigs, and it was arranged that the sow and pigs should occupy, a roomin.,the house and that the bear should be lo.dged in the pigsfcye. After all had quietly; retired to rest, a hideous noise was heard in the direction of the pigstye, when all turned out to ascertain 'the cause.' -On arriving at the 'stye they found the bear standing erect on his hind legs holding a man. tightly in his grasp, whom he would have killed had not his master called him off/ The man, imagining' himself in the grasp of the devil, 1 was beseeching his Satanic majesty to let him go and he would never again steal a pig; and he there and then confessed' to the owner of the pigs that it was he who, had been* robbing the stye lately; The man has become the laughing stock of the village; every where lie tiirn's he is met with the 'inquiry "Who stole the pigs ? " ' i" ■ ' ' .