THE HARDSHIPS OF LIFE.

A DRAMATIC author, not unconscious of his own abilities, observed, that

he knew nothing so terrible as reading a play in the green-room, before

so critical an audience. "I know something more terrible," said Mrs.

Powell. "What is that?" "To be obliged to sit and hear it read."

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