at length pins him by the throat against the wall at the end of the Committee Rooms Corridor, adding, “ Well, my Downy one; you’ve given me a stiffish run for it, you have ; but I ’ve got you tight enough now.” As he says this, he makes a rapid and well-imagined whirl with his lasso, and at the same moment envelopes his captive in the salmon net. A severe scuffle ensues; when, a eard-oase tumbling by chance to the ground, the rather obvious fact, lost sight of in the excitement of the moment, is suddenly revealed, that the struggling and exhausted stranger, is no other than the respected Speaker of the House of Commons.
And now the excellent advice tendered in Clause 7 comes to the aid of the over-zealous Detective. As the first Chairman in the United Kingdom is re-arranging his collar and gasping out, “You shall hear
of this—at Pekin! ” the officer has but to remove his own disguising pig-tail, acknowledge his error, and add, with a conciliatory Bmile, that everyone it liable to make mistakes.
Thus, by a frank and ready avowal of error, and an avoidance of argument, which a special Clause denounces as “rarely convincing anyone, and much irritating persons, smarting under some real, or imaginary grievance,” the disagreeable consequences of too warmly following up a mistaken clue are instantly and almost pleasantly disposed of.
Thus the Detective whose intelligence must be not only searching and extensive, but culminating and well balanced, has nevertheless a retreat before him when it happens, as in the case of the above illustration, to be at fault.
DISTURBANCES; OR, “ TIS AN ILL WIND,” &c.
And now the excellent advice tendered in Clause 7 comes to the aid of the over-zealous Detective. As the first Chairman in the United Kingdom is re-arranging his collar and gasping out, “You shall hear
of this—at Pekin! ” the officer has but to remove his own disguising pig-tail, acknowledge his error, and add, with a conciliatory Bmile, that everyone it liable to make mistakes.
Thus, by a frank and ready avowal of error, and an avoidance of argument, which a special Clause denounces as “rarely convincing anyone, and much irritating persons, smarting under some real, or imaginary grievance,” the disagreeable consequences of too warmly following up a mistaken clue are instantly and almost pleasantly disposed of.
Thus the Detective whose intelligence must be not only searching and extensive, but culminating and well balanced, has nevertheless a retreat before him when it happens, as in the case of the above illustration, to be at fault.
DISTURBANCES; OR, “ TIS AN ILL WIND,” &c.