Book-borrowers.
Book-owners frequently realise, with much affliction of spirit, that damp, worms, mice, and rats are not the only enemies of their collections. ' One not less common,' says Isaac Disraeli, 'is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners' This, by the way, is sometimes a distinction without a difference. ' A man in Chicago,' says the Boston Pilot, ' borrowed a book several months ago and failed to return it. Nothing unusual about that ; but when the borrower had the impudence, a few days ago, to call on the lender, and airily refused to bring back the book, the lender shot him dead. No jury of book-owners would find a verdict against the shooter, though, of course, his act is not commendable. He must have " mussed up " his floor.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 20 February 1902, Page 18
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132Book-borrowers. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 20 February 1902, Page 18
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