’ An aged Jersey farmer, visiting a eirc-us for the first time, stood before the dromedary’s cage, eyes popping and mouth agape at the strange beast within. The circus proper _ began and the crowds left for the main show < but still the old man stood before the ;catre in stunned silence, appraising ■-evei-v detail of the misshapen legs. ; the cloven hoofs, the, pendulous it'p'.per tip. 'and tho curiously mounded \hack of the sleenv-eyed beast. Fifteen h’ilvmiU ■.„»««f. Then the ' farmer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 22 February 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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