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lent, he got a small card printed at N.etherton, which was 

 pasted on each of them, and of which this is a copy ; but 

 of its author I can find no clue, though others then used 

 the same : 



1V0. Belongs to 



IF thou art borrowed by a friend, 

 Right welcome shall he be ; 



To read, to study, not to lend, 

 But to return to me. ' 



Not that imparted knowledge doth 

 Diminish learning's store, 



But books, I find, if often lent, 

 Return to me no more. 



Read slowly, pause frequently, 

 think seriously, keep cleanly, return 

 duly, with the corners of the leaves 

 not turned down. 



He always took pains to see his books duly returned, 

 and was not slack to remind any one when a book was 

 kept too long ; doing so even with Charles Black. 



Nothing illustrates the remarkable solicitude he be- 

 stowed on all he possessed so well as the one fact that 

 he wore the same suits of clothes, already described, all 

 which were of his own weaving, for at least fifty years, and 

 that they were presentable even to the last, though much 

 worn and out of date. He had two suits with which he 

 went out of doors, " a better and a worse," in addition to 

 his working dress ; and during this long period, he never 

 had any other till after the subscription raised for him in his 



