"But _why,_ in the world ?" "Because.

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Didn't you hear Mr.Mortimer say that Shakespeare was born there ?" "I did," said Tilda.

"'Ow's that goin' to 'elp us ?" "I don't know," the boy confessed, dragging a book from his pocket.
It was a ragged copy of the "Globe" Shakespeare, lacking its covers and smeared with dirt and blacking.