Having heard that his neighbor owned a set of books, which were very rare, Mark Twain asked the old gentleman if he might read them, only to be told that if he read them it would have to be in the owner's library, since he would not allow them to be taken out of the house.
Some time later the old gentleman, thinking to put his lawn in order, asked Twain if he might borrow a lawn mower.
Obliging, the humorist said that he certainly could but that due to a rule he always employed, it must be used on the Twain front yard, since it wasn't allowed off the premises.
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