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2 Chit-Chat by Puck.
she begged me to keep it in remembrance of olden
times.”
Still the young man himself never cared to read
anything in the old shabby books, because he had
in his study an elegant modern bookcase, with a
large number of new books, and in them he would
read when he happened to be in the mood.
One day the merchant, accompanied by his old
housekeeper, went to the little, old-fashioned book-
case, and told her: “Now, Kate, you must take
all these books, and send them to the bookbinder ;
he must make them all as handsome as _ possible—
new coverings, with gold impressions on the backs.”
“Oh, dear me, why must the old missus’ books be
made so fine now?” the housekeeper inquired.
“Well you see, Kate, my mother often told me,
that when one day I would marry I was to make my
wife a present of the bookcase and all the books,
on our wedding-day; the books would bring a
mother’s blessings with them, she said. I promised
her to do so, and, of course, I will keep my word,
but I cannot very well present my future wife with
the books as they now look, and that’s the reason
why the bookbinder must make them as handsome
as he can.”
When the books heard this they felt very glad that
such sudden good fortune should have befallen them
as to be brought forth into the world anew—and that’s
not to be wondered at, for they had now remained on
the same shelves for many years, without anybody
caring for them, except, may be, old Kate, who
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