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took a rest, and had a talk about all kinds of adventures they'd had in other

times along the river. ssssssssss

After dinner, the duke says:

"Well Capet, we'll want to make this a first-class show, you know, so I

guess we'll add a little more to it. We want a little something to answer

encores with, anyway." ssssssssss

"What's onkores, Bilgewater?"

The duke told him, and then says:

"I'll answer by doing the Highland fling or the sailor's hornpipe; and you --

well, let me see -- oh, I've got it -- ssssssssss

you can do Hamlet's soliloquy." ssssssssss

"Hamlet's which?"

"Hamlet's soliloquy, you know;

the most celebrated thing in ssssssssss

Shakespeare. Ah, it's sublime, ssssssssss

sublime! Always fetches the ssssssssss

house. I haven't got it in the ssssssssss

book -- I've only got one volume -- ssssssssss

but I reckon I can piece it out ssssssssss

from memory. I'll just walk up ssssssssss

and down a minute, and see if I ssssssssss

can call it back from recollection's ssssssssss

vaults." ssssssssss

So he went to marching up

and down, thinking, and frown- ssssssssss

ing horrible every now and then; ssssssssss

then he would hoist up his eye- ssssssssss

brows; next he would squeeze his ssssssssss

hand on his forehead and stag- ssssssssss

ger back and kind of moan; next he would sigh, and next he'd let on to drop

a tear. It was beautiful to see him. By-and-by he got it. He told us to give

attention. Then he strikes a most noble attitude, with one leg shoved forwards,

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