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Updated: June 25, 2025
"I say ditto to my friend, the publisher," said the bill-poster. "Wait a moment, gentlemen," said Philip. "There is a bare possibility that I can do something for you." For the first time since he left Norton he thought of the letter which he was not to open till he was fifty miles from Norton. "Mr. Gates," he said, "can you tell me how far Norton is from here?"
For reply the stranger dived into another pocket, and, bringing to light a long bill-poster, held it up before Mr Villiers. 'Read! mark! and inwardly digest! he said in a muffled tone behind the bill.
The bird turned on Frisby and sent him sprawling on his face, a sticky mass of paste and sand. But this did not end the struggle. The bird, croaking horridly, flew at the prostrate bill-poster, and the sand whirled into a pillar above its terrible wings. Scarcely knowing what I was about, I raised my rifle and fired twice.
No sooner was the proposition put forward than it was accepted, and in five minutes they were at luncheon in a 'pub, arranging the details of the entertainment. 'We shall want an agent-in-advance, a bill-poster, or something of that kind, said Montgomery.
"The Bill-Poster!" Raising his cup. "You gathered them in " "And you certainly gathered in the contents of their pockets!" "A fair robbery!" laughed Barnes, "as Dick Turpin said when he robbed the minister who robbed the king who robbed the people! A happy thought that, turning the helmet into a collection box! It tided us over; it tided us over!"
Xavier Durrieu asserted that before another hour elapsed they should have the promised forty thousand copies. It was hoped to cover the walls of Paris with them during the night. Each of those present was to serve as a bill-poster. There were amongst us an inevitable circumstance in the stormy confusion of the first moments a good many men whom we did not know.
He had made a perfunctory offer of reward for Rosalie, dead or alive, but he knew all the time that it would be fruitless. Mark Riley, the bill-poster, stuck up the glaring reward notices as far away as the telegraph poles in Clay County.
He has found his most complete, his most naïve, instinctive self-expression in it, and while we have had goodness in public men before, we have had no man who has been such an international chromo for goodness, who has made such a big, comfortable "He-who-runs-may-read" bill-poster for doing right as Roosevelt.
"Unparalleled Spectacle!" says Stevey Todd's bill-poster. "The Hotel Helen Mar. On her chimneys, with her cellar in the Air! Built in the United States! Exported to South America! Freighted Inland by a Tidal Wave! Stood on her Head by an Earthquake! Only 10 cents!" And he was up on a box himself encouraging the populace, and he seemed to think he had a good business opening.
"Meet me on the south quay, soon after ten." Copplestone was down on the quay by ten o'clock. He became aware as he descended the road from the inn that the fisher-folk, who were always lounging about the sea-front, were being keenly interested in something that was going on there. Drawing nearer he found that an energetic bill-poster was attaching his bills to various walls and doors.
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