An elder brother

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
EGLANTON THORNE
Author of The Old Worcester Jug, Worthy of his Name, etc.
London
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
56 PATERNOSTER ROW AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD
BUTLER & TANNER, THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS, FROME, AND LONDON.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
AN ELDER BROTHER
OLD BETTS
THERE are persons for whom no shop has a greater attraction than a second-hand book-shop. It may be that they have a passion for collecting the old and rare, and love to turn over the well-thumbed, dusty volumes, in the hope of lighting upon a treasure in the form of a first edition, or a work long out of print. Or they may be drawn merely by a desire to acquire cheaply the coveted book which their poverty will not permit them to purchase fresh from the publisher. Whatever the nature of the attraction, the shop of Michael Betts, which stood a few years ago at the corner of a narrow, quiet street in Bloomsbury, had for such individuals, an irresistible fascination.