ood.
Besides, some people think it's easy work, just walking around all
day. They'd better try it."

"There's one part Mr. Norton likes," said his wife slyly. "It's
showing ladies across the street."

"I don't know about that," rejoined the policeman. "It gets rather
monotonous crossing the street continually, and there's some danger in
it too. Poor Morgan was run over only three months ago, and injured so
much that he's been obliged to leave the force. Then some of the
ladies get frightened when they're halfway over, and make a scene. I
remember one old woman, who let go my arm, and ran screaming in among
the carriages, and it was a miracle that she didn't get run over. If
she had clung to me, she'd have got over all right."

"I don't think I'll be a policeman," said Sam. "I might have to take
you up, Paul, and I shouldn't like to do that."

"Paul isn't bad," said Jimmy, who was very apt to take a joke
seriously, and who always resented any imputation upon his brother.
"He never got took up in his life."

"Then he wasn't found out, I suppose," said Sam.

"He never did anything bad," retorted Jimmy indignantly.

"Thank you, Jimmy," said Paul, laughing. "I'll come to you when I want
a first-class recommendation. If I never did anything bad, I suppose
you won't call that horse bad that I drew the other day."

"It was a bad picture," said the little boy; "but people don't get
took up for making bad pictures."

"That's lucky," said Sam, "or I shouldn't stand much chance of keeping
out of the station-house. I move Jimmy gives us a specimen of his
skill. I've got a comic paper here somewhere. He can copy a picture
out of that."

"Where is it?" asked Jimmy eagerly.

The paper was found, and the little boy set to work with great
enthusiasm, and soon produced a copy of one of the pictures, which was
voted excellent. By that time he was ready to go to bed. Paul and he
had to take up with a bed on the floor, but this troubled them little.
They felt thankful, under the circumstances, to have so comfortable a
shelter. Indeed, Jimmy troubled himself very little about the future.
He had unbounded faith in Paul, to whom he looked up with as much
confidence as he would have done to a father.

Early the next morning Mr. Norton was obliged to enter upon his daily
duties. The poor must be stirring betimes, so they all took an early
breakfast.

"Mother," said Paul, "it won't be much use to look up new rooms before
the midd