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If his panorama was to be a hopeless failure at the very outset, Tiffles wanted to be within striking distance of New York. He was sanguine of success; but, like a prudent general, he looked after his lines of retreat. To this small town in New Jersey, with which the fate of the great enterprise was to be indissolubly linked, Tiffles had sent a large stock of posters and handbills.
No other building in the square could vie with them in size, seeing that the remaining edifices consisted only of a sentry-box, a shelter for two or three cabmen, and a long hoarding the latter adorned with the usual bills, posters, and scrawls in chalk and charcoal.
In the meantime other posters appeared, and among them the following in startling capitals: "WORKINGMEN! The crew of the British steamer have threatened all Americans who shall dare to offer their opinions this night at the It will be observed, that this artful appeal was like a two-edged sword, cutting both ways.
Elfreda had skilfully designed and made the Mock Turtle's huge shell and flappers, the Griffon's wings, not to mention ears for at least half the circus, and Gertrude Wells, whose clever posters were always in demand, obligingly painted bars, dots, stripes or whatever touch was needed to make the particular animal a triumph of realism.
There were also-and this I took as a sign of what might be-posters encouraging the sowing of corn, and posters explaining in simple pictures improved methods of agriculture.
In due time I received a finely engraved acknowledgment of the gift. But I forced him from his position at last. He had to admit that copies of the theatre posters need not all be preserved. It would suffice to keep a few specimens. Professor Peirce was much more than a mathematician. Like many men of the time, he was a warm lover and a cordial hater.
"The papers had you up to seven hundred some time ago, and with all your big posters and advertisements and the large bounties offered, you ought to be bringing them in very rapidly." "Yes, I suppose so!" answered Woodruff. "We ought to do a good many things in this world, that we do not find it convenient to do.
Two travellers, in a hired barouche, were slowly dragged by a pair of jaded posters along the commons I have just described. "I think," said one, "that the storm is very much abated; heigho! what an unpleasant night!" "Unkimmon ugly, sir," answered the other; "and an awful long stage, eighteen miles. These here remote places are quite behind the age, sir quite.
Well-made and agile, and profiting by the lessons which he received at the circus, little Stirling was soon fit to appear on the posters, and the night when he made his first appearance at Franconi's, old Tom Pears, the clown, who understood such matters better than most, exclaimed: 'My boy, you will make your way, if you don't break your neck first! 'I will take care of that, Monsieur Pears, the lad replied, with a careless shrug of the shoulder.
Posters on the platform at Durlingham announced in red letters that Professor Lee Ramsden, M.A., F.R.S.L., would lecture in the Town Hall at 8 P.M. She heard Miss Kendal saying, "If it had been at three instead of eight we could have gone." She had a supreme sense of something about to happen. Heavenly the long, steep-curved glass roof of the station, the iron arches and girders, the fanlights.
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