Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — Just a Fit. [ARTICLE]

Just a Fit.

In the Ex-Libris Journal an amusing anecdote is given of a man anxious for a coat of arms and fortunate in finding one. A second-hand bookseller bought at a country sale some 300 volumes of handsome but unsalable old sermons, books on theology and the like.

He placed a number of these outside his shop. Soon afterward a well dressed man entered and said, “Have you any more of this kind of books with thjs- shield on them?” pointing to the bookplate attached, which bore the arms and name of a good old country family. “That box, sir, is full of books from the same house,” answered the bookseller.

“What do you ask for them?” inquired the man. “I’m going back to Chicago, and I want to take some books, and these will just fit me, name and all. Just you sort out all that have that shield and name, but don’t you send any without that nameplate, for that’s my name, too. I reckon this old fellow with the daggers and roosters might have been related to me some way.”