“Well, don’t let’s waste time wrangling,” suggested the Busybody Extraordinary; “let’s decide when the election is to take place.”
“Oh, to-morrow, of course,” was the cry; “the sooner the better.”
So a notice was drawn up as follows, and the Advertiser General was instructed to have it printed and posted on all the walls some time that night, however late it might be.
NOTICE!
Wereas His Majesty, King Robert the Twenty-first, has mysteriously disappeared and there is no successor to the throne, an
ELECTION
OF A
SUITABLE KING
will take place to-morrow at the House of Words. Each person to have one vote. Polling papers can be had of the Town Clerk and must be filled up and returned by two o’clock in the afternoon, when the Poll will be closed.
By Order,