Another inscription of a menacing kind was,--

"This book is one thing,

My fist is another;

Touch this one thing,

You'll sure feel the other."

A friend was telling me of one of these morsels, which, considering the

circumstances, might be said to have been "insult added to injury;" for

happening one day in church to have a book alight on his head from the

gallery above, on opening it to discover its owner, he found the

following positive sentence:

"This book doant blong to you,

So puttem doon."

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