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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 479, 25 February 1881, Page 3

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THE SIDESHOW BLOWER'S LITTLE

BLOW

Now is heard the voice of the blower who

cries — lt Here's the biggest show on earth for its

size— Walk right in, and don't be afraid : Pass in and pee the Albino maid, And by no moans omit that etartling won der—

The great hump-backed sixty-foot anaconda ! We've the real, living skeleton, thinner, I ween,

Than any two skeletons ever you've seen ! And the fat woman, who, I candidly state, Is the biggest on earth ; though regarding her weight We can't give the figures—that is, the details— For the simple reason she breaks nil the scales !

We've the pig with the classical education, And a cannibal who was a king in his

nation, And to whom we're obliged to givo,by the

way, As regular rations, three children a day ; We've the great Patagonian wizard, who

takes Cold swords for dinner, with a dessert o

snakes; The five-legged horse and the two-legge< calf ; RuiriL'inbiM , , it costs but a dimo and α-hilf: So pass right up and step along in, And who's the next to hand up his .in ? "