The Policeman is a doll that is owned by a Little Girl.

The little Girl who owns the dollhouse gets a policeman doll and positions it at the front door to ward off any future depredation, but her Governess is more practical and sets a mouse-trap.

The two mice atone for their crime spree by putting a crooked sixpence in the doll's stocking on Christmas Eve and sweeping the house every morning with a dust-pan and broom.

All published appearances of the Policeman from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

*The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)
*The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909)

*The policeman doll was borrowed from Winifred Warne. She was reluctant to part with it but the doll was safely returned.
*Kutzer further believes that however much Potter wished to provide an example of moral behaviour for the reader in the last pages of the tale (the mice "paying" for their misdeeds), her sense of fairness and the subtext of British class unrest actually account for the tale's ending. Social authority (the policeman doll) and domestic authority (the governess) are both ineffective against the desires of the mice: one illustration depicts the animals simply evading the policeman doll to prowl outside the house and another illustration depicts the mice instructing their children about the dangers of the governess's mousetrap.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Two_Bad_Mice Wikipedia]

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