Little Briar-Rose

　　A POLICEMAN, finding a man that had fallen in a fit, said, "This

　　man is drunk," and began beating him on the head with his club. A

　　passing Citizen said:

　　"Why do you murder a man that is already harmless?"

　　Thereupon the Policeman left the man in a fit and attacked the

　　Citizen, who, after receiving several severe contusions, ran away.

　　"Alas," said the Policeman, "why did I not attack the sober one

　　before exhausting myself upon the other?"

　　Thenceforward he pursued that plan, and by zeal1 and diligence rose

　　to be Chief, and sobriety is unknown in the region subject to his

　　sway.