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divers gambling arrangements for knocking sixpence off a lump of putty, and not getting it when you do knock it off; for pricking at a subtly-folded garter, and for firing at a target with the advantage of obtaining “ nuts fcr your money, and sport for nothing. Here, too, is a grand performance of acrobatic talent; a gentleman in exhibition doubling-up a little boy, also in spangles, into all conceivable and inconceivable shapes. The royal l*unch and Judy iB giving an allegreto vivace performance; a girl with fair hair and a dirty face is dancing in a sort of grasshopper wagon stilts; a band of sable minstrels are dinning out “ Sally come up—Sally come down; an accomplished monkey, on an elevated round table, plays the tambourine, skips with a hoop, dances a hornpipe, performs a solo on the triangle, goes through the broadsword exercise, and, eventually, fires off a musket—achieving the whole xound of his entertainment in about the space of three minutes. Ail these are swarming along to the race-course, but making occasional halts with the view of feeling the pulse of the crowd, and ascertaining if stray coppersimhstillnotlt;hisappnea:in s•iTUCII’llago littl one —a you “C« witl —il rath of flIIitbgroandhe!.1the“Ntheoffec___
Newspaper Details
Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Apr 30, 1859
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Steve B.
USA 24 Aug 2022
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