Money, money, oceans of money! Thirty-eight cents
and seventy-six cents and a dollar four cents! My!
The librarian's report was nowhere. It was a bully library, too,
and contained the "Through by Daylight" Series, and the "Ragged
Dick" Series, and the "Tattered Tom" Series, and the "Frank on the
Gunboat" Series, and the "Frank the Young Naturalist" Series, and
the "Elm Island" Series - Did you ever read "The Ark of Elm Island",
and "Giant Ben of Elm Island"? You didn't? Ah, you missed it
- and the "B. O. W. C." Series - and say! there was a book in that
library - oo-oo! "Cast up by the Sea," all about wreckers, and
false lights on the shore, and adventures in Central Africa, and
there's a nigger queen that wants to marry him, and he don't want
to because he loves a girl in England - I think that's kind of soft
- and he kills about a million of them trying to get away. You
want to get that book. Don't let them give you "Patient Henry" or
"Charlie Watson, the Drunkard's Little Son." They're about boys
that take sick and die - no good.
It was a bully library, but the report wasn't interesting. Major
Humphreys's always was. He was the treasurer because he worked in
the bank. He came from the Western Reserve, and said "cut" when he
meant coat, and "hahnt" when he meant heart.
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