After all ’tis the pleasantest way,

To bear up as we can ’gainst our sorrow,

And if things go not easy to-day,

Let us hope they’ll go better to-morrow.—

Ri-tol-de-rol, etc.

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O. P. Q. Philander Smiff, of The Figaro, (London,) once suggested that the play of Hamlet might be made use of as an advertising medium, with a few minor alterations, as, to take the Soliloquy for example:—

“To sleep, or not to sleep—that is the question,

Whether ’tis well to suffer indigestion;

Or bear the burden of a dozen ills,