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186 good price, he afterward discovereth that the person who sold it to him had previously torn out the engravings —

Nor even when having been told to "lay books aside" the person for whom they are laid aside never cometh back — so that they lay there until all hope of selling them has departed.

He putteth works of godly piety in the waste-basket.

And books in the French language, robed in yellow like Roman courtesans — these he selleth for a good price.

"For such" he saith, "is the depravity of human nature."

Never have I been able to learn whether he saith this seriously or not — so much doth his eye twinkle when he saith it.

He is never absent from his post; — for twenty-five years he hath lived every day with his books from to