PROUD OF HIS PART.
A respectably-dressed man, on meeting a distinguished actor, claimed his acquaintance on professional grounds." "I don't remember you, my good _ir," -.said the actor. "Nevertheless we have often played together in Hamlet. Tou remember Horatio?" "Tou have never played Horatio to my .Hamlet?" " Certainly not. But you remember that ;Horatio, describing the ghost's disappearance, says, 'But even then the morning -cock crew' aloud; and at the .sound it ■shrunk in haste away and vanished from •our sight'?" ""Well, what .then ? " "The ghost at the-close of his interview -with Hamlet says, ''The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,.and'gins to pale his 'ineffectual fire —adieu, adieu, Hamlet— .remember me I '" "Tes.to"besure. Andithen?" "Why,, then, you know, as we could not make-much of the glow-worm on the stage, .' _ it was agreed to introduce the cock-: i.crow." "But your part in the tragedy?" / "It was I who played the cook!"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6126, 12 March 1898, Page 6
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151PROUD OF HIS PART. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6126, 12 March 1898, Page 6
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