Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1883 — A “SASSY” POLICEMAN. [ARTICLE]

A “SASSY” POLICEMAN.

Gus DeSmith, while plodding his homeward way to his boarding-house at or about 2 o’clock in the morning, discovered a man, fast asleep, sitting on the doorstep of a closed saloon. “Are you a policeman ?” asked Gus, punching him familiarly in the stomach with his cane. “Of course I am,” replied the slumberer, rubbing his eyes. “Are you on duty ?” “Why, of course, I am on duty.” “But you were asleep.” “No, I wasn’t asleep. I was just pretending to be asleep.” “What for?” “Nothing in particular, only I think it is my duty to pretend to be asleep, as a kind of hint to these society galoots that they ought to be at home in bed instead of bumming about the streets of Austin at 2 o’clock in the morning.” —Texan Siftings.