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TILE SUNDAY qqq, JPOBO, DECEMBER 311911 , . S
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1 -When Dolly Deere was older by a month or two or three
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v - ' While her thirst for information, for a very little "gal,"
1 c Was surprising, was astounding well, was quite phenomenal.
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I. . J ;t ' " J 2'Twas Phelan, on Fifth avenue, who sfw our little Dot f
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f 5 'J ffW' " 'ii"?s He beckoned to our Dotty and he raised an awful hand, I
J III1 r ''r I ;; At which the teeming traffic didn't teem, but took a stand I
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" I" ' 3-Dot's eyes were opened wide at all this high authority;
Hi wMM&WM V lilW ' She gazed entranced at Phelan as a god of high degree.
A I lldWH ' J "Oh? officer!- said Dolly, and forthwith she asked him why
J -11 1 4 He raised his hand. ' He answered, admiration in his eye. . . I
K li(4' 4-It was quite enough for Dolly, who began to question fast; ;
7f llfHWllM At last she'd found a man to answer everything-at last! . J
Vwk'' MWlmVl And Phelan, quite bewitched by Dolly's artlessness and grace,
"x J fP Forgot about his traffic as he looked at Dolly's face.
- 'tiVfe" "J:iv '.! .- 5-Shc asked him of the horses and the runaways he'd stopped;
I ? 5 ' I J; ' - ". She asked him what it meant to be a 4 'cop" and to be copped ;
fi - ' she asked him every uestion she. could think of' whlIe the street
fr" J Was a study in congestion undeniably complete.
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6--A mounted "cop' came dasning to the universal call; "
. He looked at Dot and Phelan and he understood it all. J
' "With crooks of all sizes," he chuckled, "Jim Phelan, v f
VI " You can take both the cake and the palm, f
v But you're just like the rest when you're faced with a girl that has j
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