Pronounce these Words.
Tho following paragi'aph contains exactly 100 words, and if you wish to have a little pleasurable excitement you will find it comparatively safe to offer almost anyone 10s if he will pronounce all th& vi ords correctly the first time of reading :
Cleopatra, isolated in the oasis, soon became acclimatised, and had ample leisure to contemplate all the economic details of her inextricable sword. The wound resisted the allopathic misogynist, who gave a courteous diagnosis, and humbly craved precedence foi a tiny idyll in the form of a vase with an serfthetic, acoustic apparatus. This told news like a book, but it might have been a dog living in squalor from the look she launched at him when he wrote down his address. She ate her breakfast and then fraternised with a national exj>ert in appendicitis, who attended the obsequies.'
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Otago Witness, Issue 2308, 26 May 1898, Page 52
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143Pronounce these Words. Otago Witness, Issue 2308, 26 May 1898, Page 52
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