The dog, with grave and scornful eyes, considered the uncle.
"Well, if you really ask me," said that gentleman, "if you name him by his character I should say Hamlet would be as good as anything." "What's Hamlet ?" asked Jeremy.
"He isn't anything just now.

But he was a prince who Was unhappy because he thought so much about himself." "Hamlet'll do," said Jeremy comfortably.

"I've never heard of a dog called that, but it's easy to say." "Well, I must go," said Uncle Samuel, making one of his usual sudden departures.

"Glad to have seen the animal.

Good-bye." He vanished.
"Hamlet," repeated Jeremy thoughtfully.