Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1916 — Shakespeare and Scott. [ARTICLE]

Shakespeare and Scott.

Those two great geniuses, Shakesspeare and Scott, saw good in everything; and they did not keep their best talk and best manners for literary peopie. In their wonderful way they missed nothing. They heard a chance remark which you or I would forget ; they heard, perhaps, a story told by some dull fellow; and they made it into something beautiful and infinitely pathetic for the everlasting joy of the world. Shakespeare and Scott were gladly received in town —lions whose roaring was always sure of an at tenlive audience —but they both loved the country..too. They both enjoyed country sports and jokes. Scott was a professional lawyer as well as a man of letters, and one day one of his learned friends asked Scott’s small son Why they made more .fuss about his father than anybody else. The little fellow pondered for a moment, and then answered very gravely: “It’s commonly him that sees the hare sitting.”