The burglars heard him coming and fled.

Then the colonel sprang his rattle and summoned the neighbors.

When they arrived, the colonel, in the course of conversation, made some remarks about the perfect uselessness of night-watchmen.

Thereupon Mr.Potts said, "I saw that fellow Bones only an hour ago two squares above here, at McGinnis's, routing McGinnis out to tell him that old cheese makes the best bait for catfish." Mr.Bones was reprimanded, but he remained upon what is facetiously known as "the force." The borough cannot afford to dispense with the services of such an original genius as he.
Our sheriff is a man of rather higher intelligence, but he also has a singular capacity for perpetrating dreadful blunders.

Over in the town of Nockamixon one of the churches last year called a clergyman named Rev.Joseph Striker.