text:  This however is thought so good a joke that it is repeated with variations; for on releasing another spring a similar contrivance introduces us to another monk of the same convent who is reading a huge tome on the lives of the saints: resenting the interruption he raises his head and fixes his eyes on the intruder at the same time beckoning to him with his hand and intimating that if he will do him the favour to come a little nearer he will knock him down with the folio as Johnson did Osborn the bookseller