Must Have It Full.
A well-known scientist was walking along the street when he came across an itinerant astronomer who was inviting the passers-by to gnzs through his te'escope at the moon at a halfpenny a time. The scientist was speculative enough to ventnre a halfpenny, and on applying his eye to the instrument was astonished to sco a beautiful picture of a full moon, although at the time the moon was only in her second quarter. Puzzled by the circumstance, he examined the instrument and found that it was not a telescope at all, but simply a tube with a smill hale where the eyepiece should be, and a transparent photograph of a full moon with a light behind it at the othtr end. On the scientist asking the exhibitor how he could so cheat the public, the man simply remarked : 11 It's all right, sir. People likes a lot for their money nowada3S. I used to havo a proper 'scope ouce, but I turned it up for this after a Scotchman rowed mo for showing him only 'arf a moon. This way pays better and gives more satisfaction."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 49
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190Must Have It Full. Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 49
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