The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-10
A S We Pass Along

simplicity was so great that 1 never
dreamed of uttering commonplace remark
to her She attended to her business and |
attended strictly to mine. i had so fixed
her in my mind Saint Elizabeth that
/ had never even wondered where she
came from or how she lived
"One pleasant evening recently on my
way home from walking trip on the out
skirts of town, / saw Saint Elizabeth
under other circumstances. She was sit
ting with some other girls and some rather
rough-looking men, on a curbstone before
a tenement house. Elizabeth had
old red shirtwaist, without any collar or
belt and a shabby skirt her long blonde
plaits hung loose and frowsy and her shoes
were not laced up. A GROWER was circu-
lating freely, and as / waited for the car,
Elizabeth, amid much loud laughter, took
boring side entrance. could hardly be-
leve my eyes, but / had to. Saint Eliza
beth was Of ordinary clay"
According to book catalogues and biblio-
philes. chained books are rare relics of
an early period throughout the old world
but according o
Chained Books human experience
of To-day. with old book-shops
and with old book
lovers. the chained book of another kind is
still to he encountered.
when you really want an old book"
said brouser in secondhand book-shops.
try to buy it. if you can, from the clerk
in the old book-shop and not from the pro-
prietor In an old book-shop that / know
was an old edition of Pepys's Diary which
/ had long admired and desired. 1t was
in a good old dusty corner and seemed
likely to stay there. One day, reading
that a new edition of Pepys's Diary was TO
come out, l made cheerful haste to buy the
old edition, fearing the new edition might
attract some buyer to these old volumes
in the darkest corner of the darkest old
book-shop.
well, sir, when that old scamp of a
bookman learned that / had come to buy
the Pepys. didn't he go and open the books
and nose into them and hang over them
and finally tell me that he wanted to look
at old Pepys himself for few days-and
would send me word when L could have
him. Yes, sir he did that. I've been in
twice since and the clerk tells me that
Pepys hasn't come back yet: he is out at
the old bookman's house. There's a
chained book for you I'll never see that old
Pepys's Diary again, and L ought TO have
bought it from the clerk
Yesterday l met nice old Dutchman
whom | know. and he had a grievance to
tell which Involved also a chained book.
'Wot you tink,' he said, L know some
goot OF Dutchman an he have some nice
lots o goot books, an he say / shall take
some nice goot book home NIT me an read
him, cause / don't get me so mOoch edu-
cations as doze odder oil Dutchmens. VEIL
takes dat nice goot book home NIT me,
an / sits by mine fire at night, nit lamp
an dat nice goot book; an here comes de
boy of dat odder old Dutchmans an he
say l shall send home right quick by him
dat nice goot book; his fadder say he can't
have dat nice goot book from his house out
all night already. He 'fraid Of fire in my
house So, / sends back by de boy de nice
goot book of de odder old Dutchman's. an
/ don't get me some more educatlons already
out of dat goot book-no. Ain dat great,
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