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statement acquires a positive interest for the reader, and may be 

 properly made. Case 9 illustrates this exception. 



Narration of Case 9. 



(Part 1): "Brown recently expended 22s. 6d. in buying John 

 Gait's Annals of the Parish^ 



(No. 1): "Probably he bought a new copy, the least expensive of recen 

 issue, 22s. 6d. being presumably its ordinary retail price." (10/11 or 10:1)'' 



(Part 2) : "A recent illustrated edition of this work bound in 



buckram sells at 5s. retail. Brown has a copy of the second edition." 



(No. 2) : "In that case the second edition is probably also a recent edition, 

 but larger and more elaborate than the one in buckram, and selling therefore 

 at the higher price of 22s. 6d. (10/11 or 10:1). 



(Part 3): "The second edition, issued in 1822 at the retail price 

 of 8s., has no illustrations and is otherwise less elaborate and smaller 

 than the recent edition in buckram." 



(No. 3): "Brown, therefore, as it seems, did not buy a new copy of the 

 work, but rather an old edition, which, on account of its present scarcity, cost 

 him 22s. 6d., or nearly thrice its original retail price." (10/11 or 10:1). 



(Part 4): "Brown paid 4s. for his copy of the second edition; 

 but being interested in old books, especially the novels of Gait, he 

 bought also a copy of the first edition of the same work, issued in 



1821." 



(No. 4): "Apparently he paid 18s. 6d. for his copy of the first edition." 

 (20/21 or 20:1). 



(Part 5): "Brown paid 6s. for his copy of the first edition, but 

 he boiight also a copy of the recent illustrated edition, bound in velvet 

 calf, which cost him 12s. 6d." 



(No. 5): "12s. 6d. is probably the ordinary retail price of the recent 

 edition in the velvet calf binding." (10/11 or 10:1). 



(Part 6): "The ordinary retail price of the recent edition in 

 velvet calf is 10s. 6d. Brown first bought a copy in buckram at 

 5s. Subsequently, preferring the other binding, he obtained an 

 allowance of 3s. for his cloth copy in exchange for the one in leather, 

 making the total cost of the book to him 2s. more than the usual price." 



In this case the successive parts of evidence will be embodied in 

 the narrative of necessary conclusions not only by extensions, but by 

 rearrangement of the previous narrative, along with the additions, 

 into a briefer and simpler account, no previous conclusion, however, 

 being omitted or modified. If the narrative is designed for readers 

 who are interested only in Brown and his purchases of the Annals, 

 the first sentence of Part 2 telling of the recent edition in buckram 

 at 5s. retail would not be included at that point in a narrative of 

 necessary conclusions, because there is nothing at that stage of the 



