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‘Well, then,’ urged the other, ‘there’s a book as belonged to Pope, Byron’s Poems, valued at forty pounds, because it’s got Pope’s identical scratch on the back; what do you think of that for security?’ ‘Well, to be sure!’ cried the baker. ‘But how d’ye mean, Mr. Clip?’ ‘Mean! why, that it’s got the hottergruff of Pope.
'Well, to be sure! cried the baker. 'But how d'ye mean, Mr. Clip? 'Mean! why, that it's got the HOTTERGRUFF of Pope. "Steal not this book, for fear of hangman's rope; For it belongs to Alexander Pope." All that's written on the inside of the binding of the book; so, as my son says, we're BOUND to believe it.
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