A PROFESSOR AND HIS BOOKS.
Book buying has its joys; but there comes a time when “weeding-out” has to be undertaken. The late Chart on Collins (says a writer m the Daily “Chronicle”) rammed his house with books. Then one day ho realised that some would have to go. “A man from a bookshop was sent for to look at them,” writes Mr. L. C. Collins ii: ms n emoir of his lather . . . The tol
lowing colloquy ensued . ■Ha<• y u sen" xml the ones you are popa.vu !>• eficr a price for?’ ‘They re «.* «'•* (>. r.-<, gm-nor.’ 'What none of them?’ ‘No, not one.’ After a pause somebody interposed saying that there was really no room for the books and that the man had better, have them for nothing. Thoroughly indignant, my father, however, at length consented. The man then remarked: “That’ll be half a crown.’ What do you mean —what for?’ exclaimed my father in a restrained tone of voice. ‘For taking them away,’ said the man. ‘Leave the house, you impudent rascal,’ at last roared the justly incensed professor. And so the book:, remained.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 2
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