Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

I know our theatrical managers, major and minor, are very particular in selecting euphonious titles for their melodramas, especially if on a domestic subject, such as Bennet, the Butcher, Davidge, the Dustman, Harley, the Harper, Vining, the Vintner. Why those very titles alone, by their tickling effect on the ear, would fill the pit and galleries of the Surrey, Victoria, or Adelphi theatres, for twelve consecutive months, if the pieces bearing those euphonious names were immediately produced.

It took it out of me, though. I'm a rag this morning. They work you too hard, dear. I'll take you to Margate and build you up. Well, maybe at Easter we could do a week.

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