A SELL FOR BOOKY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1506, 14 March 1887, Page 4

A SELL FOR BOOKY.

The " Lyttelton Timeß " tt-lh the following good Btory :— At a largo pale of household goods iv Chrißtoburch within the last week, a well-known horse owner and bookmaker became the unsuspecting victim of a ghastly joke. Being told by a friend that some works of Hawley Stuart were to be "put up," and assured that they would go oheap and would pi ove Rood reading "on the way to Dunedin," the metallieious gentleman made a bid for them at what he thought the right moment and together with sundry other purchases the books were paoked op and given to their new owner. I nagine " booky'a" disgust when, on opening the parcel, he discovered he had parted with 7a Od for a well-preßerved copy of the epatle to the Galatians," another entitled "Scriptural texts for the Yoang," a volume of "Sunday at Home," afrd several other book? vt a most deoiedly religious hue. '.! ho biblical quotations which "escaped hiß lipa when he found out his mistake wore more forcible than correot.