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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 677, 13 June 1914, Page 3

What a sad reflection that Shaic speare never had a friend or even a relative killed in railway accident, never heard the newsboys bawl all the winners, never was brought away from the sweet labour of writing glorious poetry to answer idiotic inquiries at the telephone—that in fact he enjoyed few of the privileges and luxuries of modern existence. But life has a way of offering compensations. If Shakespeare did not taste the delight of chasing a motor-'bus he was spared tb.3 humiliation of having to dadge one ; if he had to find his way home at night in the dark his eye was not outraged by mammoth posters advertising some scoundrel or safe-care in the glare of a milliqn-horse-power arc lamp ; if he had to walk home at all he was not annoyed by "being shot through a tube that looks and sometimes smells' like a sewer ; if his plays were represented on what we should reckon a very crude and imperfect stage, they were not "presented" by American crews with a terrific, twanging accent, and he had no leading ladies to be photographed for press purposes three times a day. —"Saturday Review."

Stude : " Why do you look so glum ?" New Arrival : '"Why, on my way here I got en a ferry-boat, and it made me cross."