Show LOST TEMPER WAS COSTLY poet danker threw away and cack hla own property y 1 edmund clarence stedman the poet banker had a high temper and was T exceedingly sensitive one day exas aerated by the crass stupidity of a y servant be threw a book at his head the boy ducked and the book sailed out of the window after it hurried the menial but he was too late a passerby had picked it up and walked off with it stedman began to wonder what book he had thrown away and to his horror discovered that it was a quaint and rare little volume for which he had paid 50 ills chagrin was intense as the work was almost unique and the prospects of replacing it were remote some time afterward when brows ins in a secondhand book shop our splenetic poet banker to his great delight a copy of the very book he had lost he asked the price it 3 very rare replied the dealer but as you are an old customer let you have it for 40 nobody else could have it tor less than 60 stedman gladly paid the 10 got home with his treasure as soon as possible and sat down to gloat over it A card dropped out of the leaves it was his own further showed that he had bought back his property it cured him of casting books at servants heads new york press |