The Modern Shakespeare.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1982, 21 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Modern Shakespeare.

" Last Moiir, Ar. -lie me- 7 a heard I Yinj-Pido ami Beatrice cool " " Coo, said'st tnou, ca\alier?" " Coo, pretty caTjnr, cuo 1 " " That hints of dovep, Sir Sinister, au' I be sworn there were some grossci fowl more like that dowdy twain." " Sith it were love they prattled of, sweet cackler, and doves be poets' symbols of that same, 'tis coo that dovetails with me tale's intent. An' 'fore the gods, Andromeda, there is a mushy flavor to the word that much belikes the matter to their speech." "So, boy? That fits supremely well me measure of Vingardo and this wanton Marciu, and I will hold mine ear to catch thy tell. Wag me the tale, Sir Sirius I " " An' thou dost dog me to 't, I will. Just i' the glooming epell, when yester Faw me pcale the Marcia wall, 'mid latticed quiet, where the woodbine folds its dainty tendrils 'bout an arbored grot. I Baw these silly folk in sweet commune. The sapling knight did somehow serpentine her giiJle's rim, and while her head did socket towards bis neck, his largest ear did overhang the minx and lap up answer to his liplet's lush." " Oh, what a pose were there, my countryman ! Now lay the lies the lunatic did lap I " " Why, girl, the first faint whisper that btfell was such as titled her his ' eweet white swan.'" " Please Providence defend the bird ! Had he said swine the rogue would hint, at least, of closer kinship. And then, Henrico ? " "Then, eager one, he said shevias 'his tioy toadlet, tripping upon his heaifc with tinkling feet, each tender toelet timing its tap with some transcendent tune.' " "0, lord of lollipop 1 This doth outmellow mush. And then, trite tattler ? " "Then sampled he her features, maid, and quotb, ' thy hps are Paradisian peaches, grown from some most beautioua blosaom wherefrom no bee hath ever sipped the luscious hydromel that now doth lave me seneo with taste of Heaven.' " " Inpyona and ipecac 1 Brought this no qualm ? " " Qualm, quizzing queen ' She quaffed the cap with look of chick that chews a sugar-plum, and burrowing deeper 'neath hia neck's recess, did faintly twitter of °urpassin n ' bliss, and wondered if some angel i' the azure vault yearned not to swap conditions with her." " Enough Henrico I This doth revert rue so to that Boft season when we first did woo, that if thou longer prat'st I'll think me yet again the same soft gumdrop, and thee tne olden carampl that 'twas our wont to sweet' each other with."

THE WOLVES AND THL OHL. A family of wolves made a joiunty of several miles to visit the owl pnd secure hiss decision as to which was most to blame for the many quarrels they had. " My friends," replied the owl, " if you had not come to me in this manner I should ne\erhave suspected that you quarrelled at all." MURAL : Fight out your family differences in youif own homes.

Till MOXKK\ AND THE LOB&TJ K. A monkey who was perched in a tree near the sea shore kept up such a gabble and chattering that a lobster finally called out in indignant tones : " How now, nuisance 1 One would think you had been hired to talk for the wholo country 1" " Jealousy with claws on !" sneered the monkey, and he chattered louder than ever. The lobster thereupon began to clash stones together and seek to raise a greater rumpn?, and piesently the turtle appealed and growled out : "Verily, each of you must be de\oid of common sense, to say nothing of wit. I call upon the police to bounce you both 1" MOIUTi : He who seeks to talk down a fool can gain no credit.