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Title: Police!!!

Author: Robert W. Chambers

Illustrator: Henry Hutt

Release Date: June 6, 2006 [EBook #18515]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Dainty noses to the wind, their beautiful eyes wide and
alert."]

POLICE!!!

BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY HUTT

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1915

TO LOUISE JOCELYN

All the pretty things you say,
All the pretty things you do
In your own delightful way
Make me fall in love with you,
Turning Autumn into May.

Every day is twice as gay
Just because of you, Louise!
Which is going some, you say?
In my dull, pedantic way
I am fashioning my lay
Just because I want to please.

Just because the things you say,
Just because the things you do
In your clever, charming way
Make me fall in love with you.
That is all, my dear, to-day.

R.W.C.

_Christmas, 1915._

FOREWORD

Give me no gold nor palaces
Nor quarts of gems in chalices
Nor mention me in Who is Who
I'd rather roam abroad with you
Investigating sky and land,
Volcanoes, lakes, and glacial sand
I'd rather climb with all my legs
To find a nest of speckled eggs,
Or watch the spotted spider spin
Or see a serpent shed its skin!
Give me no star-and-garter blue!
I'd rather roam around with you.

Flatten me not with flattery!
Walk with me to the Battery,
And see in glassy tanks the seals,
The sturgeons, flounders, smelt and eels
Disport themselves in ichthyic curves--
And when it gets upon our nerves
Then, while our wabbling taxi honks
I'll tell you all about the Bronx,
Where captive wild things mope and stare
Through grills of steel that bar each lair
Doomed t