there is no doubt if these commentaters and persons continner
investigating Shakspeare's career, we shall not, in doo time,
know anything about it at all.

When a mere lad little William attended the Grammar School,
because, as he said, the Grammar School wouldn't attend him.
This remarkable remark, comin from one so young and inexperunced,
set peple to thinkin there might be somethin in this lad. He
subsequently wrote "Hamlet" and "George Barnwell." When his kind
teacher went to London to accept a position in the offices of the
Metropolitan Railway, little William was chosen by his fellow
pupils to deliver a farewell address.

"Go on, Sir," he said, "in a glorus career. Be like a eagle, and
soar and the soarer you get the more we shall all be gratified!
That's so."

My young readers, who wish to know about Shakspeare, better get
these vallyable remarks framed.

I returned to the hotel. Meetin a young married couple, they
asked me if I could direct them to the hotel which Washington
Irving used to keep?

"I've understood that he was onsuccessful as a lan'lord," said
the lady.

"We've understood," said the young man, "that he busted up."

I told 'em I was a stranger, and hurried away. They were from my