THE EXCEPTION.
A circus was coming to the town, end every fence within a radius of five miles or so had been billed with file usual lurid announcements. Two farmers—one old, the other young—were gazing at the bills and wondering. “ Barnum and Bailey’s circus. The biggest show on earth/’ read the young one.
The other read again the legend of the showbills.
“ You don’t know what you’re talking about. That show kain’t touch John Robinson’s. -He used ter cum here, and that theer was a show wuth seein’. It was the biggest show on this yere earth." The old man had evidently not been to circus for many years. “ Read it for yourself, then,” said the young farmer. “ I tell ’ee that thing says this .is the biggest show oh earth.” The old man proceeded tlo spell out the big letters. He waded through “the Barnum and Baileey,” and after a rest began on the remainder of the sentence: “ B-i-g-e-s-t s-h-o-w o-n -e-a-r-t-h,' S-e-p-t. 1.” “ I knowed it! I knowed it! ” shouted the old man, jumping up and down in his glee. “ The biggest show on earth, ‘ sept one,’ and that theer one was John Robinson’s.” Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for influenza colds.
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Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3705, 10 January 1936, Page 12
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