The man: "Well, I'm going to, by George!"
(He goes away, muttering.)
The woman with the child (returning triumphant): "Ha! I haf her! Here she iss!"
(She extends the catalogue card, which she has ripped forcibly from its drawer. Miss Wilkins, head cataloguer of the library, who happens to be passing at that moment, sees the incident, and sits down suddenly on a bench, and has recourse to smelling salts.)
An imposing personage (who has stalked out from the reference room bearing a Spanish dictionary, and is followed excitedly by Miss Barnard, the reference librarian): "I want to borrow this dictionary until next Tuesday, and that woman in there says I can't, just because it says 'Ref.' on it. I won't hurt it!"
Miss V.: "Those books are not allowed to go out of the library."
The personage: "Why not?"
Miss V.: "They are reference books,—they are to be used in that room only."
The personage: "Who made that rule?"
Miss V.: "The trustees, I suppose,—it is one of the rules of the library."