When I get old and have time on my hands I'm going to reprint some of these--wide margins, and footnotes, and that sort of thing.

But there's fun enough now in just having them and knowing the other fellow hasn't!" He flung open a panel of the wainscoting at a point still free of shelves and disclosed a door of a small iron safe which he opened with a key.

"This isn't the family silver, but a few little things that are more valuable.

These are first editions of American authors.

Here's Lowell's 'Fable for Critics,' first edition; and this is Emerson's 'Nature,' 1836--a first.