tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1540814685620323514..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Steal Not This Book for Fear of ShameUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-86338119249706317752007-11-07T10:25:00.000-05:002007-11-07T10:25:00.000-05:00A particularly poignant example of the fly-leaf an...A particularly poignant example of the fly-leaf anathema appears in Josiah Atkins's diary of the Southern campaign of the Rev. He writes that those who find his body may take his shoe and belt-buckles, but that they must send his diary home to his wife or suffer his curse from beyond the grave. He died four days before Cornwallis's capitulation at Yorktown ... but evidently, someone took his admonition seriously, and sent the book home, preserving his deeply moving diary for future ages. <BR/><BR/>mtaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-89553998482154019592007-11-06T20:30:00.000-05:002007-11-06T20:30:00.000-05:00These are actually living examples of an ancient t...These are actually living examples of an ancient tradition:<BR/><BR/>http://www.librarything.com/work/205816<BR/><BR/>To steal this book, if you should try,<BR/>It's by the neck that you'll hang high,<BR/>And ravens then will gather 'bout<BR/>To find your eyes and pluck them out.Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com