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Author:  Louis Slobodkin Copyright Date:  1966 Publisher:  Franklin Watts Pagination:  68 p.

If anyone thinks that all he has to do to become a policeman is to grow up big and strong, he is wrong. That may have been true years ago, but it is not true now!      Five hundred years ago, there were no policemen. Very rich people hired big, strong men who were good fighters with swords and clubs to protect them and their treasures from robbers and other troublemakers.      The poorer people could not afford to hire strong men to protect them. They usually buried their few treasures in a secret place, and hoped that the robbers would not find the hiding place. If robbers came to steal a poor man’s sheep or cattle, he and his sturdy sons (if he had any sturdy sons) tried to fight the robbers off.      Later on, in towns and cities, the people each gave a little money, and together they hired men to protect them all. Those men were called watchmen. They were perhaps the first policemen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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