2/12 It contains all the books we don't want to read." "I am tired of reading," Bernardine said. "I seem to have been reading all my life. My uncle, with whom I live, keeps, a second-hand book-shop, and ever since I can remember, I have been surrounded by books. They have not done me much good, nor any one else either." "No, probably not," he said. "But now that you have left off reading, you will have a chance of learning something, if you live long enough. |