Chapter Forty-Two Flute

When William Shakespeare was in Warwick Jail, to pass away the gloomy hours he took a rail out of the wooden stool belonging to his cell and, with the knife he had for cutting of his meat, he fashioned it into a flute.

The keeper, hearing music, followed the sound of the music to Shakespeare's cell. But while they were unlocking the door, the ingenious prisoner replaced the rail in the stool, so that the searchers were unable to resolve the mystery.

Nor, during the remainder of Shakespeare's residence in the jail, did they ever discover how the music had been produced. And, on his last day there, Shakespeare managed to fall on the stool so that all the rails were broken and the thing was thrown away as useless.

Thus William Shakespeare was remembered in Warwick Jail as the prisoner who had been attended by music, but it was never discovered how the music had been there for Shakespeare, or if he had made it himself.

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