The Policemen's Purgatory.
We say ' purgatory,' but those who don't believe in the middle state can find a hotter word to describe the old Police Barracks. Oi-e of the new policemen quartered there is a good man, but the first time he stayed there he put in the night killing insects. In the morning there was found on the wall, pinned up like a motto, these words, constructed of deceased bedbugs :
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 607, 16 August 1890, Page 4
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71The Policemen's Purgatory. Observer, Volume X, Issue 607, 16 August 1890, Page 4
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