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A House-Boat on the Styx

CHAPTER VII: A DISCUSSION AS TO LADIES' DAY
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I'm getting a little tired of it myself; but if it amuses you, why, keep it up.

_I_ know who wrote my plays, and whatever you may say cannot affect the facts.

Next thing you fellows will be saying that I didn't write my own autographs ?" "I didn't say that," said Johnson, quietly.

"Only there is no internal evidence in your autographs that you knew how to spell your name if you did.

A man who signs his name Shixpur one day and Shikespeare the next needn't complain if the Bank of Posterity refuses to honor his check." "They'd honor my check quick enough these days," retorted Shakespeare.
"When a man's autograph brings five thousand dollars, or one thousand pounds, in the auction-room, there isn't a bank in the world fool enough to decline to honor any check he'll sign under a thousand dollars, or two hundred pounds." "I fancy you're right," put in Raleigh.


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