Garland Globe | 1908-03-07 | Page 6 | Lost Temper Was Costly

f I LOST TEMPER WAS C03TLY. Poet Canker Threw Away and Bought Back His Own Property. .k. I Edmund Clarenco Stodman, tho poot banker, had a high temper and was exceedingly sensitive Ono day, oxas-pcratcd oxas-pcratcd by tho crass stupidity of a servant, ho throw a book nt his head. m ,s HJ Tho boy ducked and tho book sailed out of tho window. After It hurried tho menial, but ho was too lato; a passerby hnd picked It up and walked off with It. Stcdman began to wonder whnt book ho had thrown nwny, and to his horror discovered that It was a quaint and rnro llttlo volume for which ho had paid $50. His chagrin was Intense, as tho work was almost unique and tho prospects of replacing it woro remote Somo time afterword, whon browsing brows-ing In a second-hand book shop, our splenetic poet banker perceived to his grcnt dollght a copy of tho vory book ho had lost. Ho asked tho price. ' "It's very raro," replied the dealer, "but as ' you aro an old customer I'll lot you havo it for $40; nobody elso could havo It for less than $C0." Stedman gladly paid tho $40, got homo with his treasure ns soon as possible, and sat down to gloat over It. A card dropped out of tho leaves. It was his own. Further examination Bhowcd that ho had bought back his property. It cured him .of casting books, at servants' serv-ants' heads. Now York Press.