M.) in obscurity. It had awakened to find itself
dragged into the light of day. Already Constable Bungel was devising
a formidable code of "traffic regulations"--traps and snares to catch
the prosperous and make them pay tribute as they passed along.
As early as seven o'clock that vigilant agent of the peace had
placed a sign in front of the post office (where he was wont to
loiter) reading, "NO PARKING HERE." But all the while he hoped that
the unwary would park there and pay the three dollars and costs.
But of all the signs which appeared in Everdoze on that day when
fate, like an alarm clock, had awakened it out of its slumber, there
was one which thrilled the soul of Pee-Wee Harris and caused
consternation to everybody else. This appeared in front of the
"Town Hall" and at a number of other strategic places in and out
of the village.
"Come and read it! Come and read it!" shouted little Silas Knapp
as he madly intercepted Pee-Wee who, as I have said, was about to run
to the house. "It's a monolopy or somethin' like that--Mr. Drowser says
so! Come and read it!"
So before going to the house Pee-Wee went and read it. He did not
know that the stern phraseology had been penned ever so tenderly and
with a twinkle in the eye, of the writer.
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