No. XXVII.—WAS IT VOLAPÜK?
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A schoolmaster in the Midlands, who was a bit of a wag, wrote this on the blackboard, as a novel exercise for the boys of Standard VI. Can you decipher it?
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Here is another ingenious specimen of missing words, spelt each of them with the same five letters:—
That Samson did a thousand ———
Is not so wondrous strange.
In days like these at ——— such feats
Assume a wider range.
The Press ——— news ——— now,
Enough to scare a sinner,
And any fool who chooses may,
In Samson’s way, his thousands slay
Who chews his ——— at dinner.
No. XXVIII.—ANOTHER EPITAPH
(On an Old Pie Woman)