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Show lie Got His Price for tho Book. J. Fletcher Williams, librarian of the State Historical society, while in London recently called on a dealer in old books from whom the State society has been buying books occasionally for the past twenty years. Mr. Williams relates that the presiding genius of this particular place was a qneer old piece of humanity, and illustrates it by the following incident: inci-dent: A gentleman in search of a rare old English black letter volume found it in the store referred to. He was much pleased at his dincovery and asked the price. "Nine hnndred dollars," said the proprietor. "Nine hundred dollars!" exclaimed the would be purchaser of the volume; "that is too high. Now I think this book" But here the volume was snatched from his hands, and the proprietor pro-prietor threw it on the counter, exclaiming, exclaim-ing, "It'll be ft thousand to-morrow!" And it is an actual fact that the book buyer, after a long and vain search, actually came back and paid a thousand dollars for the volume. St. Paul Pioneer Press. |