fine day. It is called the 'Donkey and the Canary.' The verses are
perhaps a trifle long, but there are only two. That's the compensation.
Here they are.

The canary once sang; and the ass askt him how he could learn this to
do?

"I open my bill," said the bird; "and I say you, you, you!"

Well, the ass, that's you--don't get angry. The canary, that's I. When I
sing I open my bill and I say, "you, you, you!"

That's all that I can tell you.

Édouard Pailleron.

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IX.

From Victorien Sardou.


My dear friend:

It's not so easy to answer you as you think. ...There is no one
necessary way of writing a play for the theater. Everyone has his own,