five for one you have not got. Then you have all but three, which you
demand from the universe at large: then all but two; then all but one.
What you pay for that one you keep a profound secret, lest your family
should have you put under control. Even then you are not safe, for some
of your engravings have false margins, and must be changed for entire
examples. Such are the joys of the collector, for shadows we are and
engravings _a toutes marges_ we pursue.




Footnotes:


{6} Except with worm in a summer flood.

{8} Perhaps an Editor put this moral in?

{16} The author once caught a salmon. It did not behave in any way like
the ferocious fish in this article.

{23} Mr. Wordsworth, in his poem of "The Recluse," expresses a horror of
this diversion.

{37} It is a melancholy fact that the Author has quite forgotten what
_did_ happen! Thus a narrative, probably diverting, is for ever lost,
thanks to the modesty of our free Press.

{135} These remarks were made before the great discovery of some modern
authors, that the best novels are those in which there is never a