Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-05-11
II S|taksPedrean Game.
by LEONE BLANCHARD.

A rainy evening; a cozy parlor,
with bright fire and softly shaded
lamp; father looking over the dali,
PAPER. mother and Lnry sewing !;
will intent on mending his broken
skates; Harry in iull tide of game
of romps with two.year-old Jessie !;
aunt May watching with changefnl
smile the antics Of the little one, and
the pranks of the bold. bright, hand
some boy; Grace, with brown hair
pushed back, and eyes following ca,
ysrly the pages her fingers are softly
tnrning; do you see them all ?
Presently Grace closes her book
with u vim, and losses it upon the Ia
Bile, excla'ming ,riumphan,lv, There !.
I've finished the one of Shakspeare's
plays ....
Harry throws his cap nn irto the
air with a Bravo! You'll read the
dictionary through next, won't you 2
Ann' May comes I" the rescue, say.
ing, No danger ut ,onr reading any
thing through, il there, Harry 2
lmminent danger, Anntie I've
read every word of Robinson CruSn,
and in Oliver Optics last story only
skipped a page or two, Low aud then.
Good boy! she said, pa,ting his
shoulder then turning to Grace,
Yon hav'nt read Shakespeare enough
to lay it upon the shelf, have yon?'
% no, aunlie I've only begun my
study of the great dramatist. A to
reading it through, the idea never en-
tered my mind till ] had read, in des-
u'tory fashion, nearly all the plays
Then it occurred to me that may as
well make a clean sweep of IT,
| formed the same purpose years
ago but have heen very leisnrelv
in the execution of it, partly from an
underlined feeling that one very pleas
ant experience of my fife would be
closed when | had turned the last
page of Shakespeare. OF course /
should not begin to exhanst it in one
reading, but there would be no I'M.
trodden realms before me no vague
i,naginings Of wonderful revelations
yet to come
A true poetic fancy. don't sup,
pose our practical Oracle ever thought
of it, SAID the father laying down
his paper, And, by the way, have
little game in mind that may afford
ns some amusement, at the same time
.ssting and stimulating our know!-
edge of Shakespeare. Harry, do you
think you could possibly keep still
long enough to join Us? III take Jrs-
sic off your hands. Now, Gracir, ns
you have been reading last, give Us
some quotations from Shakespeare,
and AK any question you please abou,
it Let the first one who answers
correctiy--unle-s others choose to ask
him further questions give smother
passage. II any one misquotes or
answers incorrectly, he mast pay
some forfeit, of which mother must
be the Judge
Grace thought minnie and asked
Who was called the setter up and
pulle' down of kings p
%, learned that in my history
lesson yesterday That was the earl
of War~ick,' said Harry, quickly.
Good : sail papa. win any
one question him farther p
What kings did he set up and de-
pose 2 asked aunt Nav.
., Henry ana Eiwarl, and Hen.
~ again, and all the rest ofih" Yorks
and Laucasters,' was the raltling an
swer.
A little more accurate, master
Harry, or We shall have some fnrfeits
mt Of v"u.' said his father; but he
insisted that that was about all f,.l
low could tell in regard to the Wars
OF the Roses. anyhow and, AZ no
one seemed inclined to contest this
last proposition, the matter was drop.
ped, and Harry was called upon for
the next quotation.
A horse horse my kingdom
for horse ! he shouted with ,heat.
ricsl air. Who said tha, p
/. What very obscure selection =!
sneered VIII, Richard Second, Of
course
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