(Loud laughter.) But you could not send the player adrift; for if he cannot play Hamlet, he must play Guildenstern.

Where there are many labourers, wages must be low and no man in such a situation can decently support a wife and family, and save something off his income for old age.

What is this man to do in later life?
Are you to cast him off like an old hinge, or a piece of useless machinery, which has done its work?
To a person who had contributed to our amusement, this would be unkind, ungrateful, and unchristian.

His wants are not of his own making, but arise from the natural sources of sickness and old age.

It cannot be denied that there is one class of sufferers to whom no imprudence can be ascribed, except on first entering on the profession.