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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 142 | 126 LATEST MAGIC zigzag fashion SO as prevent the possibility of its fouling at a critical moment. The introductory patter may l'un as follows: "In the course of my travels in Central Africa-- you didn't know that I had been in Central Africa ? Strange, how little the world knows of its greatest men! But no matter! When I was in Africa I chanced to come upon the place where the Golli- woggs live. "It's a nice place-for those who like that sort of place, but most people would find it a little too warm. It is so warm there that the hens lay their eggs hard-boiled, and you dig up potatoes ready baked. It is too warm for anything but simple life,-the very simple life, particularly as regards clothing. The ordinary walking dress for a gen- tleman Golliwogg is a pair of braces. The king wears two pairs; except on state occasions, when he wears one of those short shirts instead. You know the kind I mean-all front. I think they call them 'dickeys.' "The ladies are more dressy. They get the fashions from back numbers of the Daily Mail; kimonos and camisoles and corsets all in the latest style. They are made with green paint and put on with a shaving brush. There is only one thing that bothers the court dressmakers. They can't make a crinoline." [If desired to shorten the patter the fashion details may be omitted.] |