PUT ME IN.
A millionaire mine owner and senator, of Orton, U.S.A., has just built a new opera house for that interesting township. The senator, vtho bad engaged an artist to fresco the walls with appropriate subjects, entered the buiilding the other day while the painter was at work on a portrait of Shakespeare. "Who's that you're drawing?" enquired tho senator. "Shakespeare," was the reply. ' ' Who's he?' ' ' ' The greatest dramatist and poet that ever lived." "Everdone anything for Orton?" asked the senator. "No," answered the man with the brush, ' ' He died " "Then paint him right out and put me in."
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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 4
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100PUT ME IN. Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 4
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