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No, you need not look alarmed.

He came in search of a newspaper." "But there are no newspapers in the Library." "Quite so: he has just made that discovery.

Thereupon, since an animal of that breed cannot go anywhere without leaving his scent behind him, he has scrawled himself over half a page of the Suggestion' Book.

He wants this Library to take in _The Times_ newspaper, 'if only for the sake of its foreign correspondence and its admirable weather-charts.' Signed, 'J.