said: "That is the way the thing came about.

Barnum did buy Shakespeare's house.

He paid the price asked, and received the properly attested documents of sale.

Then there was an explosion, I can tell you.

England rose! That, the birthplace of the master-genius of all the ages and all the climes--that priceless possession of Britain--to be carted out of the country like so much old lumber and set up for sixpenny desecration in a Yankee show-shop--the idea was not to be tolerated for a moment.