On the plate of a book-lover in Charleston, S.C.,—
And ye shall keep me until the fourteenth day. And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this book. Send me away unto my master. Ex. xii. 6: Jer. li. 63: Gen. xxiv. 54.
Every one has suffered from book-borrowers, even from school-day times, when the rude doggerel,—
Steal not this book for fear of shame,
For here you see the owner’s name,
or its variant,