ONE PLACE OR THE OTHER
Reading edition
“When I get to heaven,” said Brown, as he laid down the book he had been reading—“when I get to heaven, the very first person I want to see will be Shakespeare.”
“And what do you want to see Shakespeare for?” inquired his wife.
“Why, I just want to ask him whether he wrote his own plays, or whether he got some one else to write them for him, and have this question settled.”
“Well, but”—objected his wife, “how do you know he’ll be there? Not all people will get to heaven.”
“That’s so, that’s so,” said Brown meditatively. “Well, I’ll tell you what we’ll do—if he isn’t there, then suppose you ask him?”