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#HS SK#UTS-BO#r. 3 9
afternoon with a book in his hand, instead of roving through
the streets, as his fellows did, his sentiments turned still more
strongly in Ivar’s favour, especially as he always attended fo his
day’s labour with peculiar diligence and activity. To reward ’
him l)roperly, and to encourage him to still greater diligence, his
toaster took him one pleasant Sabbath afternoon into iris room,
led him fo the before-mentioned concealed shelf, and withdrew
the curtain with as much baste as the surgeon ai Rosenberg
used, when he brought fo the traveller Bystroem’s sleeping Juno.
And lo! before Ivar’s enraptured gaze a field of unbounded
joy was opened. Two long rows of books, yellow with age,
sometimes a half, and sometimes the third only of a volume,
and occasionally a whole one; fragments from al1 the book-
auctions that Mr. Brun had attended for the last twenty years.
"That is my library," said honest Brun, joyfully. "I bave
never allowed either my journeymen or apprentices to look upon
them; but you, Ivar, are a promising and clever boy, diligent
and active in your business, as in your conduct also, and for
these reasons I shall honour you, so that you will remember
your toaster ail the days of your life."
"I shall certainly do so," said Ivar, Iris eyes glistening with
plegsure, as he stood enchained by rapture fo the spot, as his
toaster drew one volume after another from the library, and
gave him his choice. :Not fo occupy too much rime in selecting,
he took, in God’s naine, the first that came #o his hand, and left
all to fortune, nntil the treasure he had chosen would become
exhausted. Master Brun was glad he did so, as he was no# able
to advise Xvar in the choice of the books, and being convinced
thaç they were all of equal value.
The first great catch was "Peter Wilkins, or the Flying
People," bound together with "Gulliver’s Travels," both forming
a volume the size of a I)rayer-book. Ivar conveyed the treasure
fo his room, and from that hour, after he had opened the sturdy
l#ather cover, there was dis131ayed fo Iris astonished senses such
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