Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 18, 2020

Just when Margaret thought that she had found a place for those books…

Reggie, what are you doing in there, and where is the rest of you??

Are you sure you’re not seeing things?

Reggie always did have a head for literature.

Reggie pops up in the strangest places. Yesterday he was lurking under the counter at the Ballard Fish Emporium and Lace Curtains Are Us.

Gave Mrs. Higgenpooder quite the fright. She dropped her Shad Roe.

The really peculiar part is that Margaret was talking to one of the books. It had been misfiled, and she had been looking for it for months for a patron.

I think he punched a hole in the wall behind the book case and then stuck his face in….

I only have one thing to say about that.

HERE’S JOHN-EEE!

Odd choice of Bookends there, Marge.

He should hope she’s in a good mood because she still has room to jam those in there.

I’ve heard of being well read, but this is ridiculous.

Appropriately, in the Horror Section…

“Do have any books on camouflage?”

If he says, “Heeeere’s Johnny,” I’m so out of there.

Reggie thought Margret would never find him in the stacks.. sadly his pipe gave him away.

“Put…the…candle…back!”

He’s obviously shelved in the wrong section.

Reggie just wants to spend a little quiet time with his books. Is that too much to ask?