The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-12-14

uieu years nehce plcturs OF my birthplace
will be in demand. Will the pe'ple of
my native town be proud of me in three
hundred years | guess they won't
short of that timo, because they say the
fat man weighin 1000 pounds which
exhibited there was stuffed out with pill
lers and cushions, which he said one very
hot day in July, "Oh bother, | can't
stand this" and commenced pulln the
pliers out from under his weskt, and
heavin 'em at the audience. never saw
man lose flesh so fast in my life. The
audience said | was pretty man to come
chiselin my own townsmen in that way.
| said, "Danot be angry, Teller citizens
I exhibited him simply as a work of art.
l simply wished to show you that man
could grow fat without the aid of cod
liver oil'' But they wouldn't listen to
me. They are low avd grovelin set of
peple, who excite feelin of loathin in
every brest where lofty emotions and orig
inal idees have a bidin place.
[ stopped at bennington few minits
on my way to Stratford onto the Avon,
and very beautiful town it is. I went
into shoe shop to make a purchis, and
as | entered | saw over the door those
dear familiar words, "By appointment !:
II. r. Ii. )" and / said to the man,
esquire, excuse me, but this is too much.
I have seen in London four hundred boot
and shoe shops by Appointment: H. r.
FL. and now you're at it. 1t is simply
impossible that the Prince can wear 400
pairs of boots "Don't tell me,' / said
in voice ch,ked with olnotion-"Oh, do
not tell me that you also make boots for
him; say slippers; say you mend boot
now and then for him but do not tell
me that you make 'em regular for him."
The man smilt, and said [ didn't un-
nerstand these things. He said perhaps
had not noticed in London that dealers
in all sorts of articles was by Appoint
ment. l said, "Oh, hadn't Il !" Then
sudden thought fasht over me. 81 have
itW [ said. "When the Prince walks
through street he no doubt looks at
the shop Window
The man said, "No doubt"
"And the enterprisin tradesman," l
continnerd, "the moment the Prince gets
out of sight, rushes frantically and has
in sign painted, BY Appointment: H.
r. II. >! 1t is a beautiful, great idee %
then bought pair Of shoe strings, and
wringin the shopman's honest hand, l
started for the tomb Of Shakespeare in
hired fly. 1t lookt, however, more like a
spider.
"And this" l said, as l stood in the
old churchyard at Stratford beside tomb
stone, "this marks the spot whe lies VIM.
w. Shakespeare. Alars and this is the
spot where"
"You've got the wrong gravo,' said a
mana worthy villager : "Shakspeare is
buried inside the church."
"Oh,' | said, ga boy told me this was
it," The boy larfed apd put the shillin
I'd given him into his left eye in inglo-
rious manner, and commenced movin
backwards towards the street.
pursood and captured him, and after
talkin to him spell in sarcastic stile,
| let him went.
The old church was damp aud ohilk-
1t was rainin. The only persons there
when | entered was a fine bluff old gentle
man, who was talkin in u excited manner
to fashnibly dressed young man.
"No, Ernest Montressor," the old gentle
man said, at is idle to pursoo this sub
jock no further. You can never marry
my daughter. You were seen last Mon
day in Piccadilly without a umbreller -
l said then as | say now, any young man
as ventures out in uncertain climit like
this without umbreller, lacks foresig ht,
caution, strength of mind and stability,
and he is not the proper person to in
trust daughters happiness to-"
l slapt the old gentleman on the Shout
der, aud said, "You're right! You're
one of those kind of men, you are"
He wheeled suddenly around, and in
indignant voice, said, eco way-go way!
this is private intervoo."
/ didn't stop to enrich the old gentle
mans mind with my conversation. |
sort Of inferred that he wasn't inclined to
listen to me, and SO | went on. But he
was right about the umbreller. Pm real
ly delighted with this grand old country,
Mr. Punch, but you must admit that it
does rain rayther numerously here
Whether this is owing to a onerkal
form of govment or not, l leave all can
did and onpreiudiced persons to say.
William Shakespeare was born in Strat.
ford in 1864, All the commentators,
Shakspearian scholars, etsetry, are agreed
on this, which is about the only thing
they are agreed on in regard to him, except
that his mantle has fallen ontu any
poet or dramatist hard enough to hurt
said poet or dramatist much. And there
is no doubt if these commentators and
persons continner investigator Shak-
speare's career, we shall not in doc time,
know anything about it at all. When a
mere lad little William attended the
Grammar School, because, as he said, the
Grammar School wouldn't attend him
This remarkable remark, comm from one
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