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Show AAKV GRAHAM. -BONNER. 1 QOmiCsi'. II WUTttN MyrJ UNiOW ' THE BOOK SHELVES There was great excitement among the books on the bookcase shelves. lil IBS The Books Had Pered' Been Squeezed. "l wonder If I'll leave you," said a fourth book to a fifth. "Maybe," said the fifth. "But I believe be-lieve we'll more or less keep our old positions, only we'll be able to stretch a little and we won't have to be, so cramped. Dear me, but it will be nice not to have to be huddled up as I've been. "My pages are just miserable. And my covers don't like it at all. They've been threatening to break and really do a little harm. Yes, they've been threatening to do that for some time." "Oh, see," said another book. "I believe they are ready now." The books all kept very quiet and watched what was going on. The books that were too far back couldn't watch what was going on but they were told the news by the books in front. A little girl had been getting more books all the time. She was building a fine library for herself with the help of her father and her mother and her aunts and uncles and with little gifts of money which she had saved. And the books had been mounting up so that there had been no room any more in the bookcase. She had put the books way In, along the shelving of the bookcase, as far as she could. Then she had put other books In front of these. Then she had put books sideways over the tops of the books that did not reach up to the top of their shelf and to the bottom of the shelf above. The books had been squeezed so tightly together in the bookcase that they had hardly been able to stand It. They liked to be close together In a friendly fashion. But they had not liked to be so terribly ter-ribly jammed. It had been painful to be so lammed. And they had some how not been pulled out of their shelves and looked at so much lately. Their owner would stand before them and say : "Oh, dear, I don't believe I'll bother to get that adventure story out now. I had wanted to reread that exciting chapter just before the end but I haven't much time and It Is so hard to get at It." That had been the way for some little time. And the hooks shoved wny back had not been able to see anything at all. The titles on the back parts of the books liked to be able to see a little. Above all they liked to be seen. Their owner had said: "I really have to memorize where I've put my books." Now the news had spread from the hooks on the outside to the books way inside. "There are going to he new shelves built along the wall," was the news of the They were creaking creak-ing a little in their great excitement. excite-ment. "Won't it be wonderful! It will certainly be wonderful." won-derful." "How long ago was It decided?" asked one of the books. "Not so very long ago," another an-other book said. "They should be ready soon," a third book whis- 1 J ,J(,,ks- The Books Were And now at Brought Out. last tlie new shelves had hecn built a bookmse of white-pa in tod shelves and t tie carpenter carpen-ter was putting the shelves up along the wall. Then their owner had a glorious time. The books were brought out and newly arranged. They were put in much the saiae onh'r as they had been before, but none were put on Top of each other. Kaeh had a position po-sition of its own. And they were looked at more than ever now. Oh, It was a gn-at relief. |