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Al t3icSe met Eud sseaeu arc noaaIng iasa
ana uNsnea. What are you re4aingf Al
stain fssm al El1ess books which. whlle
lhey lad scare sooa things Aesot taega.
have aise sn aaWiKtare ~ evl Yea hays
read books ihat had two elrm-nis ia thesn
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Ia YOU The u@ci he hear of most pe0-
ple Is ike = sleVe. which lets tae small par.
tieits ~ sa.d TAI lhfough put kecils the
great cinaers once ia while there Is .
mind like a ioatis.e0s. bach. plunged
amid stoel snd brass .4lu - gathers ap the
stevl And reIe.s tbe brass bgt IL is sen1r
ally lac Opposite. NJ yoa atsempi ~ plllas.e
through . fence of barrs - 81, one back
terry soa VAL ges more bars thaa black
berries
Yoa cannot &C ard 70 read bad boel,
however good you Gle 4ou say4 Tee lu-
ruence Is iuslguIfeauf" Tell yon tl4.t
the scratch = fiu ass sometimes pro
ducei iookjae Alas. II through curiosity.
~ many do. pa l4sy int0 ala evil Doe.
your curiosity IS 49, dangerous As that "
the man who would taEe q torch into "a
euniowder mill merely T. se- whether L
would really biosy up of nCt In a Haenas-
eg.c /. man pa, his arm throaeh tie o@rs
# black leopard Gags The animal :
hide looked - sleeA Gad brsgAf and hesg.i-
ful lie jasi styokod once TIE monster
seized him, and D. drew forl4 hand tora
and manSicd ala bleeding
On, toGcl no. evil even NJ "a the fantest
stroEei Though il nlay he glossy &al
beautiful. touch ii aot -est y3a pull forth
your soul torn aul bleeding under TIE
clutch Of the black leopard. But" you
sly, how can fad our ahether BOOK is
goos. or had VII bout psaalng it'' There Is
always something suspicious about bad
book. never knew au ezoepton-sotne-
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/ Illustration. THIS veuomoas reptile almost
always carries "A warning rattle.
The clock strikes midnight A fair form
bends over romance. The eyes fash fire.
The breath is quick and irregular. DC
css!onally the color dashes TO the cheek,
and then dies out The hands tremble As
though a guardian spirit were trying 70
shake the deadly book out OF the grasp
Hot tears fall. She laughs with d shriil
voice that drops dead ST It's own sound
The sweat on her brow Is the spray dashed
up frcm the river Of death. The clock
strikes four. and the rosy dawn soon after
begins TO look through the lattice apon the
pale form that looks Ike detained specter
Of the night Soon la mad house she will
mistake her rngiets for curling serpents.
and thrust her white hand through tie
bars Of the PRISON, and snite her head,
rubbing it back as though TO push the scalp
from the skull, shriekinS; MY braini my
brain" Oh, stand OF from that Why
will you go sounding your way amid ths
reefs and warning buoys. when there is
such vast oee1n in which you may voy-
age, ell sail set'
WHAT Is A BOOK
We see so many books we do not un-
Z derstaad what a BOOK is. Stand 1t on
end Measure 1.-THE height OF it. the
depth Of it, the length OF IL, the breadth
I of it. You cannot do IL. Examine
/ the paper and estimate the progress
. made from the time of the impressions
! on clay, and then on 70 the bark Of
/ trees, and from the bark OF trees 10 papy-
rus, and from papyrus 10 the hide OF wild
beasts and from the hide a Wild beasts
on down until the miracles Of our modern
paper manufactures, and then see the pa
per, white and pare ~ an Infants soul.
waiting for Gods inscription.
A book Examine the type Of IL. Hr-
1 anime the printing Of It, and see the prog
4 ress fre,n the time when Solon's laws were
written on oak plsnks, and HeSio5s poems
were written GA tables OF lead. and the
! Siniatic commands were written on tables
of stone on down 10 He's perfectinc
/ printing press.
/ A book 1t took all the universities Of
/ the past, al tue martyr fires, all the civil
I izat,ous, all the battles, all the victories.
all the defeats. all the gloorns, ali the
( brigbtBcsscs, al the centuries TO make 4
possible.
/ A book 1t is the chorus II the ages; Il
is the drawin., room Ia Witch kings and
+ queen. and orators and poets and sisSoTi ans
come ont to greet yea. IL ] worship ped
f anything on earth ! would worship THAI.
/ II ] burned Incense TO any idol ] would
build Al altar TO tbst. Thank God for
good books, heaithful books. inspiring
books, Christian books, books II men,
books OF women. Book Of God u is with
these good books that we are 20 overcome
corrupt lirrsssre- Upon the frogs swoop
with these eagles. depend much for the
I overthrow Of ubiquitous literature upon
I The mortality Of books. Even good books
I have bard struegie 70 live.
/ Polybsus wrote forty bocts- only Eve .,
f them left Tsfrty booss o. Tscitus have
persisted. Twenty Dcoks Of Play hsve
perisBed- Iivy wrote one hBpsire-i Dnc
+ forty books: onlv thirty-fve 81 them re
main. X1<>hylus wrote oEs hppared
1rsInas: only se-~r resssln Eurfpioes
wrote over 8 hus6re3 only ntnetesa re
! man Varro wrote tie iysograpsiss ri
/ over seveu hundred eTsst Romano Al
TIA: wealth Of biography hss pcr1sbed
n god and valuable books have such .
struggle - livn. -hat fanst ne toe fate al
tho@e that are disease. ard corr-gt and
blasse3 al the vsry StSrt They vii de ~
the frogs when the Lord turned bsfk ~.