The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-17
on SCRAP BOOKS.
Bill Nye Relates His Experience for n
Readers Benefit


perfection In a scrap book, also desiring tC
know my own experience in scrap books, if
ever had any.
a scrap book generally is like a diary you
begin 10 keep II with extreme exuberance
and YOU gradually flag and flicker out and
hummix, as one might say
began simply by ordering from my con
gresham an edition de luxe Of the report Of
the commissioner Of education, bound IN
plain muslin and boards. Taking volume
Of this kind 20 my airy suit Of bali bedroom
aud wOOdb0x. with the keen blade OF a
butcher knife cut out two leaves and left a
third all the way through without marrng
the general plot Of the book. This gave room
for passing excerpts and other literary gems,
most Of which referred to myself, and pre-
vented that general fuilness which would have
resulted had / not done so.
Whenever a paper referred to me l bought
some copies and, having sent one to my dear
one ] carefully cut ont the excerpt from an
other copy and pasted IL, by means of some
loud and extremely offensive paste on the
page Thus filed at last a whole volume
of the reports o. the commissioner Of educa-
ton with paragraphs IN which 10 was stated
with more or lees typographical inaccuacy
that / was Gin town and quarteIed az l,ley
hotel" or that 1 was ION our streets, or mat
/ "sh0oS hands with friends here Yesterday"
or that was attending the quarterly con-
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