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Excerpt from Humorous Dialogues: Designed for School Exhibitions, Literary Entertainments, and Amateur TheatricalsThe' representation of dialogues on the parlor stage and in the school-room having become more general than in the' days gone by, the young folks are constantly on the look out for something new and striking. This is as it should be. The scholar and the amateur actor should not be expected nor required to commit and perform old, stiff and formal dialogues, such as were performed ten, twenty or thirty years ago; they should not be expected to delight in that which has gone the rounds of the school and recitation room, and been repeated and re-repeated until worn threadbare. 'tis said thata story loses nothing by being twice told. This is true, but when told half-a dozen times it becomes flat, stale and unprofitable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.