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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 342, 4 March 1911, Page 2

The showman looked worried and thoughtful. His menagerie was densely crowded, it is true ; but how wan he to get them out, so as to make room for those waiting to pay for admission outside ? At. length a bright idea occurred to him. Painting up in lar.ee letters on a pice of calico : "This way to the egress," he hung it up at a convenient angle of his show. The simple country people, thinking "egress" was some strange new animal just added to the collection, pjissod through the slit in the curtftii'i, cuid. to their amazement, found themselves outside the show. Seeing the crowd making its way to the corner where Ihe "new animal" was on show, everybody followed, and the outgoing stream being so great, no one, ivhen once caught in its eddy, could turn back. Then the showman smiled, and let in those waiting to pay for admissiou uutade the main entrance.