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Show Always Prepared. Bentley, the Greek scholar, always had his pockets stuffed with editions of the ancient classics. Once, while traveling, he met. a stranger who Insisted In-sisted on showing off his familiarity with Greek and Latin. Presently the man referred to a passage In Homer. Bentley denied that such a verse existed. ex-isted. The stranger insisted, and Bentley Bent-ley pulled a Homer from his pocket and asked his acquaintance to find the disputed line. The stranger falling, changed the topic to Euripides. Bent-lty Bent-lty corrected him, and proved himself right by consulting a pocket Euripides. The. conversation shifting to Aeschylus, Aeschy-lus, Bentley produced a three-volume Aeschylus from his overcoat pocket, when his antagonist collapsed. "Great heavens!',' he cried, "whoever expect-ed expect-ed to find a man with the whole Bodleian Bod-leian library In his pocket?" |
