FRIENDS IN COUNCIL.
Scene—Editor's Sanctum, "The Halfpenny Slater."
Critic. "What a pity Shakspeare's dead! It would be such a Score to pitch into him as an over-rated Old Idiot! It's never been done yet that I know of!"
Editor. "Ah! capital idea! I don't see that his being Dead makes any Odds!"
Critic. "Oh yes—for the Reader! Dead 'uns don't feel, you know, and there's nobody big enough Living now to be worth Powder and Shot, confound it!"