Show the value of books i A young girl once nce 0 asked mart twain it if lie he liked books for christmas christinas gifts well that depends drawled the great hunio list if a book has a leather cover it is really valuable as a razor strop if it Is a brief concise work such as the french write it Is useful to put under the short leg of a table an old fashioned book with a clasp cant be beat as a missile to hur I 1 at a dog arid and a large book like a geography is as good as a piece of tin to nail over a broken pane ol of glass i |