Mr. Timmid, taking his evening stroll, reads a newspaper article telling of the audacity of footpads. Many citizens, the story continues, fearing attacks, are carrying arms. Timmid, thoroughly alarmed, gazes round apprehensively. ...

Watch Your Watch

Mr. Timmid, taking his evening stroll, reads a newspaper article telling of the audacity of footpads. Many citizens, the story continues, fearing attacks, are carrying arms. Timmid, thoroughly alarmed, gazes round apprehensively. A short distance away is approaching a mild-looking person. He is reading a page of a guide. The guide reads: "Deserted streets should be avoided, as upon them dangerous persons may lurk. Distrust suspicious looking persons and run away." This startling information alarms the person. The stranger, equally afraid of Timmid, passes by. Noting Tlmmid's scowl he concludes that Timmid is a dangerous man. He decides to run. Timmid puts his hand in his pocket. His watch is not there. Timmid pursues the fleeing stranger and at the point of a pistol takes a time-piece from the man's pocket and puts it into his own. Timmid, feeling brave, goes home and tells his wife all about his hand-to-hand struggle with a gigantic footpad and how he recovered his watch, whereupon Mrs. Timmid goes to a desk and picks up the real watch which Timmid had left home by mistake that morning. The mistake was apparent and Timmid takes the watch to the police station. He tells the police inspector that he had found it on the roadway. A year passes. Timmid is not quite recovered from the shock which accompanied the discovery that he was an accidental thief. One evening he is requested by a policeman asking him to call on the superintendent of police regarding the watch. Timmid and his wife can now see no other prospect than that of a long term in jail. The police superintendent looks at Timmid. Timmid is about to plead guilty when he is handed the watch and his attention is called to the printed rule in the police laws, which says, that anything found on the public highway and not claimed within a year and a day belongs to the finder.

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