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Show l I Bought but One Volume. I happened in a Dakota settlor's house ono : day whilo "'o wero waiting for something and I noticed tho first volume of "Johnson's Cy-j Cy-j eloped ia" on tho shelf, each volume of which I work being abunt tho size of ono of tho un-j un-j abridged dictionaries and very closely j printed. I casually suggested that it was a j good thing to have in tho house, or words to I that cli'ect. "Yes," Bo replied, "it's handy. I only got tholirst book." "How docs it happeu you haven't tho .others?'. "W'y, you see, I got it of an agent when I 1 was livin' down iu Iowa, an' 'bout li months after round ho comes agin an' knocked r.t the i door, an' I o;?ned it an' says ho: 'Mister, ' here's tho secon' book of your cyclopedy.' 'Git out' says I; 'I ain't got tho first ouo read 1 yet!' und 1 made him go, too. W'y, jes' think of it, that was-uigh onto ton year ago, an' I ain't mure'n two-Lhirds through this now, an' . my wife is only jes' nicely started on tho 'B'sl' It took a pile o' brains to niako it, but for nil that I don't mind savin' that I think it's got its dry streaks jes' like other books. ,: C'hivago Tribune. |