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A House-Boat on the Styx

CHAPTER IV: HAMLET MAKES A SUGGESTION
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What I object to is the way we are treated by these so-called first-class intellectual actors in London and other great cities.

I've seen Hamlet done before a highly cultivated audience, and, by Jove, it made me blush." "Me too," sighed Hamlet.

"I have seen a man who had a walk on him that suggested spring-halt and locomotor ataxia combined impersonating my graceful self in a manner that drove me almost crazy.

I've heard my 'To be or not to be' soliloquy uttered by a famous tragedian in tones that would make a graveyard yawn at mid-day, and if there was any way in which I could get even with that man I'd do it." "It seems to me," said Blackstone, assuming for the moment a highly judicial manner--"it seems to me that Shakespeare, having got you into this trouble, ought to get you out of it." "But how ?" said Shakespeare, earnestly.

"That's the point.


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