...wish you had arrived a little sooner! Why, it isn'ta fortnight since I destroyed several baskets full of letters and papers in order to clear a small chamber...partridges which I wish to bring up alive ; and as to Shakespeare, why, there were many bundles with his name wrote upon them. Why, it was in this very fireplace...

...wish you had arrived a little sooner 1 Why, it isn'ta fortnight since I destroyed several baskets full of letters and papers in order to clear a small chamber...partridges which I wish to bring up alive ; and as to Shakespeare, why, there were many bundles with his name wrote upon them. Why, it was in this very fireplace...

...burned several basketsful of old letters and papers, many with Shakespeare's name 'wrote upon them,' 'in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive.' Apparently, this cock-and-bull story suggested to the younger Ireland the exploit that made his name...

...burned several basketsful of old letters and papers, many with Shakespeare's name " wrote upon them," " in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive."* Apparently this cock-and-bull story suggested to the younger Ireland the exploit that made his name...

...burned several basketsful of old letters and papers, many with Shakespeare's name " wrote upon them," " in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive."* Apparently this cock-and-bull story suggested to the younger Ireland the exploit that made his name...

...Quizzing the gentleman-farmer who occupied the manor, he was appalled to hear this Williams say: "By God, I wish you had arrived a little sooner! why, it isn'ta...partridges which I wish to bring up alive: and as to Shakespeare, why there were many bundles with his name wrote upon them." Pitched on the hearth —...