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Gussie was knock-kneed, angular, and round-shouldered, He had a terrible squint, and a mouth like a steam-roller. All the same, he reckoned on making something of a hit at the fancy-dress ball, and his costume was as elegant as his figure Svas unlovely. With fast-beating heart, lie stepped Jauntily from his automobile outside the town-hall whore the hall was being held. The hall-porter st3pped backward at the unsightly apparition. "Great Christopher Columbus !" he gasped, as he regarded Gussie. "No, no, my good man !" chirped Gussie, as he tripped through the portals. "Chawles the First, my dear fellow—Charles the I£rst !"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 385, 9 August 1911, Page 6
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100CORRECTED. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 385, 9 August 1911, Page 6
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