An Officer and a Thug故事

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An Officer and a Thug故事
    A CHIEF of Police who had seen an Officer beating a Thug was very
    indignant, and said he must not do so any more on pain of
    dismissal.
    "Don't be too hard on me," said the Officer, smiling; "I was
    beating him with a stuffed club."
    "Nevertheless," persisted the Chief of Police, "it was a liberty
    that must have been very disagreeable, though it may not have hurt.  
    Please do not repeat it."
    "But," said the Officer, still smiling, "it was a stuffed Thug."
    In attempting to express his gratification, the Chief of Police
    thrust out his right hand with such violence that his skin was
    ruptured at the arm-pit and a stream of sawdust poured from the
    wound.  He was a stuffed Chief of Police.