Bassett's Scrap Book:
SCRAPS OF HISTORY, FACT AND HUMOR
OFFICIAL ORGAN LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN
Entered as Second-Class Matter, March 10, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
THE LION IS WITHIN.
It's a long loan that has no returning.
The automobile is not a carriage. It has become the modern-"what is it?"
"How did your son pass his entrance examination?"
"He didn't pass at all. Maybe you won't believe it, but they asked the poor boy about things that happened long before he was born."
"How can you dress so expensively when the city is under siege on your account?" demanded the Daughter of Priam.
"Because I get all my gowns from Paris," coldly replied the Cause of the Trouble.
Hearest thou a man say to his beast: "Come, brother, and draw the plow with thy strength, while I guide it with my understanding, that when the harvest is ripe we may partake together, and give also to those that are destitute?" Know thou that such a man is beloved of the gods. — Pagan.
According to the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman,
