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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOOK BORROWERS, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: Some folks are rather funny; if they should
Last Line: Roosting on my shack.
Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading
First Line: Some folks are rather funny; if they should
Last Line: Roosting on my shack.
Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading
SOME folks are rather funny; if they should borrow money, they're sure to pay it
back; they're straight, they're never willing to owe a man a shilling, a shotgun
or a tack. In all life's common phases they are as prompt as blazes, a debt gets
on their nerves; they are so blamed punctilious it fairly makes one bilious to
contemplate their curves. But when they borrow novels, and take them to their
hovels, to keep nine days or ten, you may be sure the chances are that those
fine romances will ne'er come back again. I am a chronic martyr; my set of old
Nick Carter was borrowed long ago; and Laura Libbey's volumes, that stood in
stately columns, my shelves no more shall know. Where are the cherished
treasures that gave me unmixed pleasures in olden, golden days? Oh, where is
"Bolts and Fetters," and where "The Life and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes"? To
honest friends I lent them—at their request I sent them—and maybe
they'll come back some day when pigs are soaring, and pterodactyls, roaring, are
roosting on my shack.
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