Such is life's half circle_.

Do you know Leadbetter?
That's the way he construed it." "I know you all talk in riddles," said I.
"Well, never mind; you'll know Leadbetter, and all the old books in the house by and by.

Plenty of 'em, aren't there?
The governor had a curate once, when his throat was bad.

_He_ said it was an Entertaining Library of Useless Knowledge.

I've brought home one more volume to add to it.
Second prize for chemistry.