CHRISTMAS CROCKERY. TT7E are now showing a nice as- " sortmenr of CROCKERY and GLASSWARE; also a few TOYS. Call in and look round. S. T. SMITH. ", "THE" FAMILY GROCER. ALLITERATIVE ARTIFICE. SWINBURNE owes something to alliteration. The little noetasters and doggerel-mongers thrive on it. You will remember a famous example — Arthur Asked Amy's- Affection, — Bet, Being Benjamin's Bride, Coolly Cut Charles' .Connection ; Deborah, Dicky Denied. Eleanor's Eye, Efficacious, Frederick's Fatality Feels; Giles gained Georgiana — Good Gracious! ■'•• Harry Hates Helen's High Heels. * Isaac Is Isabel's Idol , Jenny Jeers Jonathan Jones; Kath'rino Knows Knock-Kneed Kit Kreidal, 'Loves Leering Lucy's jjong-bones. Mary Meets Mortifications; Nicholas Nancy Neglects. Oliver's Odd!' Observations Prove Peter Poor Patty Protects! Quaker Quintilion's Queer Quibbles Red Rachael's Reasons Resist; Soft Simon's Sympathy Scribbles Tales To Tall Tabitha Twist. Urs'la Unthinking, Undoing Volatile Valentine's Vest, William's Wild Wickeder Wooing 'Xceeds Youth Zelica's Zest. Much more sensibly, the scribbler might have written: Suratura Saves Sighs, Since Suratura Stimulates Sanity, So Securing Seraphic Serenity. Thatv looks like a tall order ; but it's so". "D" quality, 2s, all grocers.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 8
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176Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 8
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