AN AMERICAN EAMLET.
An authority estimates that in about twenty years the American language will be unintelligible to English earn. Then we shall doubtless hear the late** American representative of Hamlet <J«^ livering a famous speed) something liki this: — . ' • To quit or not to quft-4farfl Ufa* Tm V against. I Is ii tho cheese to sit stlU is the gUMy And take whatever* a oominff to you yet, Or to put up a rough house 'gftiatt s butch of troubles ( Till they are down and cntt . Who'd stand for «dl xh» taxdaii kind of luejr, The frozen faco, the main guy** jollying, The fly cop's club, the 'mitten from a p»tefc> "When any old time he c*n ck»»e iumicU Into the boneyard?
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 3
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122AN AMERICAN EAMLET. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 3
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