. St. Nicholas [serial]. ieplays us false. We have had enough of thejade. He struck her a vigorous whack across theface with a stick, and her frilled cap fell on oneside of her head. She looked a very batteredand dilapidated old woman. Lorimer Grimweed cast his eyes around, andthey met those of Mme. Tussaud. The fewwords he had had with her had not impressedhim unfavorably. He had spoken to her rudely,and she had answered him amiably. Perhapshe could bamboozle the old lady. Anyhow, itwould do him no harm to try to make a friendof her. Look here, he said, beckoning her aside. What is all this a
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ieplays us false. We have had enough of thejade. He struck her a vigorous whack across theface with a stick, and her frilled cap fell on oneside of her head. She looked a very batteredand dilapidated old woman. Lorimer Grimweed cast his eyes around, andthey met those of Mme. Tussaud. The fewwords he had had with her had not impressedhim unfavorably. He had spoken to her rudely,and she had answered him amiably. Perhapshe could bamboozle the old lady. Anyhow, itwould do him no harm to try to make a friendof her. Look here, he said, beckoning her aside. What is all this about ? I d like to know, youknow. What do you want to know, you know?asked Mme. Tussaud. Whether all this is realâgenuine, you know. Oh, it s real enough, said Mme. Tussaud. Does not Shakspere say that there are morethings in heaven and earth than are dreamt ofin our philosophy ? Yes, he does; and he knew a lot, did nthe? I tell you, Shakspere was a wise old chap,now was nt he ? Indeed he was. There never was a poet so. m A TOURNEY â A TOURNEY! HE CRIED. wise and far-seeing. He foresaw the future; heforetold what would take place centuries afterhe wrote his wonderful plays. When thattricksy imp Puck said that he would put agirdle round the earth in forty minutes, therewas no electric telegraph, no telephone, noAtlantic cable; and the girdle has been putround the earth, and under the sea, and we canspeak to our friends in America, and they totheir friends in England, just as though we andthey were all living in one house â not to men-tion speaking across the water without any wiresat all. If that is true, Mr. Grimweed,âwhichit is,âwhy should not this be true ? 706 A COMEDY IN WAX. (June, Of course, of course, he said eagerly. I shall not try. You re fond of curious And seeing s believing, is nt it ? (I wonder things ? if Shakspere said that!) But, my dear woman, Rather ! I am not asleep â I am awake. Oh, you ve Would you like to see something very, very no idea how wide aw
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