City Contest
What city is for few people? Scarcity.
- Happy people? Felicity.
- Hypocrites? Duplicity.
- Chauffeurs? Velocity.
- Truthful people? Veracity.
- Athletes? Elasticity.
- Greedy people? Voracity.
- Wild beasts? Ferocity.
- Home lovers? Domesticity.
- Actors? Publicity.
- Reporters? Audacity.
- Wise people? Sagacity.
- Hungry people? Capacity.
- Telegraph operators? Electricity.
- Crowds? Multiplicity.
- Nations? Reciprocity.
- Old people? Eccentricity.
- Beggars? Mendicity.
- Unhappy people? Infelicity.
- Office-seekers? Pertinacity.
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Transcriber's corrections
- [p. xi]: In the early half of the seventeenth[seventeeth] century
- [p. 7]: An oculist[occulist] is an excellent sleight-of-hand
- [p. 35]: Because he discovered[dicovered] a whole New World.
- [p. 45]: What is the most difficult[diffcult] river on which to
- [p. 88]: Why is a rooster on a fence[fency] like a penny?
- [p. 99]: What animals are in the clouds? Rain-deer[Rain-dear].