"Let me know when you've got your plan laid out.

I'd stay and make a contract with you now, but Adam has promised to give me points on the management of wild animals without cages, so I can't wait.

By-by." "Humph!" said Shakespeare, as the eminent showman passed out.

"That's a gay proposition.

When monkeys move in polite society William Shakespeare will make a side-show of himself for a circus." "They do now," said Thackeray, quietly.
Which merely proved that Shakespeare did not mean what he said; for in spite of Thackeray's insinuation as to the monkeys and polite society, he has not yet accepted the Barnum proposition, though there can be no doubt of its value from the point of view of a circus manager..