A Round Robin.
It often happens, especially at sea, that men who have a grievance wißh to present a p tition for ie'lress to thoae in authority over them, yet no man w'shes to make his nan.c prominent. So sosno one invented the fashion of signing the 1 aiiies in a circle in whvh it is iuipoH-üble to tell which was written firht. Tms peculiar petition is called a round ro'iin. which i-, merely a ujirupti >n ot the original French mine rond ruhun (loirid nbbuii).
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 17 July 1902, Page 4
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86A Round Robin. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 17 July 1902, Page 4
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