... your(?) critic sees through his ears, and fancies that Hamlet ought to look like a member of the merry family of patomime clowns. Further, I am favoured with a nasal twang-be might just as truthfully have written, had also a hunch, squinted, limped ...

... stand on their heads, hind feet, and roll barrels with their fore feet. The clown elephant, however, amuses the patriarch most. He comes in dressed, as I have said, in clown's costume, takes his seat at a table which is set for dinner, rings the bell ...