New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-25

..f. 81, strikes me that this one ID
-, too 8" eaid the young man, glOoniiy iooA-
inc, at the various iron braces that piOpp'u -
tho long suffering edifice. On hedrine 49,
q fat man who had arrived late became
=. -, tho staircase and blocked the "hoIe
downward procession by carefulIy '97'ie -
stem first with one foot and then win 'i9
49,, ILL., o cautious elephant crossing
shaky bridge 49,.
In the BIRTHPLACE museum the romantic amer
can stopped before Shakespeare's desk n'iH
Of him. Ned sitting there. learning MS O4
or scrfbbling his first poetry on H. amy 20
rousr.t be taken in by these relics salu Hei
husband You know there isn't any PROOF th'lI
this was Shakespeare's desk 1t. In fact Is sdiu
to be an usher's desk. not a pupils desk at an
ooh no. said his wife. recOiling- IT was MS
..1 ,,asn,t ito" she appealed to the care
,aker. .Er-weII-by old tradition. madam ne
answered Il suppose tradition is enough proof
sbe faItared 1t was an old tradition. SAID her
husband cheerfuIIy that the earth was nat
We'll some of these chairs and tables were
really Shakespeare's. l know said the ardent
pilgrim. patting the furniture Il don't believe
a single piece has been proven to be his said
her husband.
The girls face began to lose its radiance she
examined the other relics rather hstlesSiy-
thought would see the things he touched"
that are like the things he probably touched
Let's 90 to the New Place Museum-we may
find something genuine there
Il don't believe" began her husband
Even if you don't believe anything. Ned
YOU might leave little Illusion, she snapped
So they remained silent till they came to the
museum next TO the side on which Shakespeare
built his house when he came back a prosper
Gus citizen to Stratford. In this museum the
young woman's eye lighted up as she saw a
long ia BILE, a casket and mug ostentatiously set
forth.
This, miss" said a local guide noting her
happy look. lis the table on which the poet
played the 'istoric game Of shovelboard-"
Really she gurgIed. Did he lean on it
and shove the funny little weights through the
sand? / wonder turning to her husband. IF
he and Anne used to play every night-like ping
pong. you know?"
Well 'ardly miss" said the guide. You see.
this table used to be at the Falcon Inn. across
the way" Indeed" said the visitor. raising
her eyebrows do you mean to say that Shake
speare spent his time at the-a-er public
house," "Lor'. bless you. indeed he did" said
the guide. warming to his work, and ere is the
wooden fagOn from which he quaffed is nut
brown hale" The wOrshipper shuddered slight
Iy Hand right behind this 'ouse." the guide
went on, lis a mulberry tree. That there null
berry tree is a shoot of one under which the
Immortal bard drank so ard that e died Of
surfeit three days afterwards"
II don't believe it, burst out the Indignant
devotee- How dare you tell such things about
the greatest man the world has ever known"
oh WELL" said the guide in a soothing tone.
you know it's hOnly hold story from the
village. You don't ave to believe it unless you
likes to-
He thought you were the kind that would like
to believe it," said her husband teasingly. as she
turned away without hearing about Anne Hath
away's alleged trinket box.
It's too bad-its too ridiculous" his wife
said. miseraby ITO think have come all this
way to be so disillusiOned. But l have made
up my mind to see Anne Hathaway's cottage
in different spirit l will steel myself against
being disappointed. Ned. tell me the worst.
Let me have the truth about that cottage"
To begin with. it's not Anne's house at all
said her husband It's only part of a certain
Richard Hathaway's farm buildings. This Rich
ard may have been close relation of Anne's
for there were three Hathaway families from
which she may have been descended Nobody
can say absolutely that Anne came from Shot
terry at ALL
The young woman listened with a sad and
stony countnanCe- Il suppose We had better see
it," she said. after pause. So they hailed Il