DEATH OF "WHAT IS IT?”
Zip, the oldest freak known io cir-cus-goers, has died in New York, aged 84 years. A, strange figure with a small, tufted, conical head, he. with Tom Tiumb, w.is the corner stone of Barmim’s foitnue. In the early sixties Im used to convulse children and grown-ups with his imitations of “Ajax Defying the lightning” and “The Maiden's Prayer:” Charles Dickens, when he saw him in 1867, asked “ iVhnfc is it?” Ever afterwards Zip, the wild boy, was advertised as ‘-‘What. Is it P ”
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Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 1
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88DEATH OF "WHAT IS IT?” Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 1
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