THE CIRCUS PLACARD.
If yoti want a receipt for that edict oracular Known to- the world as a circus placard, Take all the long adjectives in the nacularWords that have only one syllable barred : — Astounding, incredible, startling, sensational, Fabulous, famous, enormous, unclassed, , Wonderful, elephantine, aggregational, Glittering, georgeous, outre, unsurpassed, Eadiant, ravishing, lustrous, quotidian, Fulgent, prodigious, colossal, bizarre, Enchanting, astonishing, Afric, Numidian, Shimmering, glimmering, spectacular, Gargantuan, Gog-and-Magog, Brobdingnagian, Magical marvellous, mystical, Magian, Only-live-specimen-born-in-a-cage-ian, Novel, eccentric, abnormal, unique, Loop-looping, death-flouting, killed every weelr — Take of these adjectives all that are usable. Set them in order so they'll be perusaWe, Print on pink paper, and pasts by the yard, And the happy result is a circus placard. —Puck.
THE CIRCUS PLACARD.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 69
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