A MAN OF ONE BOOK.
Mr Pett Ridge, speaking in London, said: "In a military hospital, a man asked mc whether I could get him 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.' Ho said, T began it twenty years ago. I borrowed it from I another man. Somebody pinched it frorf? mc when I was half-way through it, and I've never had a chance of getting to the end of it.' I found .the-hook, and took it . to him. He said, 'I'm very glad to have it. | I began It twenty years ago ' I said. ( •Yes, bnt you've read a large number of ' books since then, haven't yon!' The maa i ■willed,-"0b,.n0, I never tried, another'l" i
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 49, 26 February 1918, Page 2
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116A MAN OF ONE BOOK. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 49, 26 February 1918, Page 2
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