| Show HE CAUGHT A TARTAR V 1 I BOOK AGENT MADE MISTAKE IN TACKLING LAWYER now he knows how it feels to have bave to listen to a long prosy har bangue delivered much as parrot talks having succeeded in gaining access to the lawyers private office without disclosing the object of 0 ilia his call the agent tor for the greatest history 0 of the world ever compiled started in to gain the favorable attention ot of his prospective customer histories make men wise lord bacon said began the salesman and 1 I see interrupted tho the lawyer that you bolf have called to invite my attention to the desirability ot of adding to my library a set ot of marvelous history ot of the world bound no doubt in cloth in sheepskin and in full morocco you have told me that bacon says histories make men wise he continued and no doubt you will tell me also that bolingbroke said history I 1 is a philosophy teaching sy by examples that lamartine lamar alne said history teaches everything even the future that cicero said not to know what has been happening in former times is to continue always a child and that carlyle s said aid history is a mighty drama anae enacted ted upon the theater of 0 time with suns bulls for or lamps and eternity for a background when rhen you have finished quoting these more famous gentlemen you will no doubt begin then to give me some of your own reasons why I 1 should no longer deprive myself of the liberal education to bo be gained by the mere association with such a set of books as you have done me the honor to introduce there are several reasons why I 1 do not care to sube subscribe cribe the lawyer proceeded but I 1 scorn to reply to the eminent authorities you have quoted by simply giving the opinions and iea reasons of an obscure twentieth century new york lawyer lawter instead permit me to remind you that Napo napoleon leori said what is history hut but a table fable agreed upon also that goethe said sin writes wates history goodness Is silent likewise that voltaire wrote history is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes furthermore that lord chesterfield said history is only a confused cont used heap of facts and lastly that horace walpole wrote anything but history for or history must be false 1 I 1 Z 1 I thank you for your kind attention concluded the lawyer and I 1 trust you will encounter no difficulty in finding your way out |
