The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-03-03

and find much of Shakespeare divine essence
as Cleon shall find in his hundred.dollar edition.
Therefore, l thank you, careless shoppers. When
the glad season comes that reckless shoppers turn
their thoughts to books, come out, We bargainers,
and depreciate a complete set of "The Taller" for
me- Only spare the integrity of the leaves If you but
let the LEAKAGE rival that of Vaombrosa care not
how you smut the covers, for there are detergents
that shall kill all germs.
When had secured my Shakespeare, thought
tnat there might peradventure be a set Of Scott for
song. saw an "lvanhoe" here and "Redgauntlet"
there and a LADY of the Lake" hard by, and
asked the maiden late of the lace department,
whether they had SCOTS works complete She walked
up and down and cast searching eye over the mass
of books.
mo-" said She finally, with an omniscent smile,
there's nothing left but his poems and the Waverey
Novels"
crippled Shakespeare, with reasoning powers
still intact might seem to be enough Of a bargain
for one day, but at another table found scores
OF essayiss on dress parade and waiting to be trans
ferred when it should suit the will or some random
purchaser They were massed in solid phalanx, for
they had been so unattractive to the rushing shop
pers that they had scarce given them toss. There
nothing limp about them. There they stood un.
1.smayed, ready for friend or foe, pipeclayed and
sodierly, with shining morning faces" And nine
teen cents would buy their discharge!
What do you think you thoughtess persons who
spend hundred dollars for week at the Rangeley
Lakes-what do you think of "a Week on the Con-
cord for nineteen cents And while you can do no
more than catch some fish that will fade in few
days can catch and keep forever thoughts as quaint
and as homely as Thoreau was himself.
o CleOn you with your plethoric purse have never
learned the delights of working for your moneys
worth. Won spent two hundred dollars without The
fun of picking and choosing while l, for less than
ten, have picked up library of good fellows and
enjoyed the search withal.
The book.hurting shoppers did not toss and gore
Bazac, for the very name seemed to them something
scientific" and they passed him by as IL they had
been 80 many Levites. Their unjust discrimination
against him was my loss, for 1 still lack Balzac
Next year it would pay you to dick into the French
man little, We scrim hunting ladies' He is easily
handled and although in the departmenstore edition
his covers are not limp you can bring down his price
appreciably If you follow bargainsale tactics And
when you have bepawed him and rejected him as
than rubbish, will you kindly drop me a postal
that may go to whether he has been let down to
my statureY
But for one afternoons browsing credit me with
Macaulay's Literary Essays" Carlyle's "Sartor Re-
sartus," Lofts ICELAND Fisherman" Emerson's ENG
ish Traits" Curtiss "Prue and l." Thoreaus oval
den" and his "Week the Concord" and Shake
speare crutches, and there is still some virtue in
the ten dollars Cleon, wouldn't change places with
you unless, together with your generous balance at
the bankers, could keep my ability to tire out
dollar.