P.S.--I am told that the author of _A Midsummer's Dream_ wrote a number
of other plays of considerable merit. This I challenge, the more
especially as those who swear by Mr. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE candidly admit
that his name is a deterrent rather than an attraction on a play-bill.
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1890 ALMANACK FOR FUNNY DOGS.--Evidently "Whitty Curs'
Almanack."
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