He may be left to pair off with that provincial Montano who modernised his speech in reference to Cassio: And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor Should hazard such a place as his own second With one of an ingraft infirmity.
It were an honest action to say So to the Moor-- into "It's a pity, don't you think, that Othello should place such a man in such an office.

Hadn't we better tell him so, sir ?" In small provincial or strolling companies it often becomes expedient to press every member of the establishment into the service of the stage.

We read of a useful property-man and scene-shifter who was occasionally required to fill small parts in the performance, such, for instance, as "the cream-faced loon" in "Macbeth," and who thus explained his system of representation, admitting that from his other occupations he could rarely commit perfectly to memory the words he was required to utter.

"I tell you how I manage.

I inwariably contrives to get a reg'lar knowledge of the natur' of the _char_-ac-ter, and ginnerally gives the haudience words as near like the truth as need be.