A Roman knows!

BOOK-LARCENY.

Sir Walter Scott said that some of his friends were bad accountants, but excellent book-keepers.

How hard, when those who do not wish

To lend—that’s lose—their books,

Are snared by anglers—folks that fish

With literary hooks;

Who call and take some favorite tome,

But never read it through;

They thus complete their sett at home,