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Show JUST A NATURAL MISTAKE Gussie, in Fancy Costume, Astonished the Doorkeeper for a Moment. Gussie was knock-kneed, angulaf and round-shouldered. He had a terrible ter-rible squint, and a mouth like a steam roller. All the same, he reckoned on making something of a hit at the fancy dress ball, and his costume was as elegant as his figure was unlovely. un-lovely. With fast beating heart he stepped jauntily from his automobile outside the town hall, where the ball was being be-ing held. The hall porter stepped backward back-ward at the unsightly apparition. "Great Christopher Columbus!" he gasped, as he regarded Gussie. "No, no, my good man!" chirped Gussie, as he tripped through the portals. por-tals. "Chawle1' the First, my dear fellow fel-low Chawles the First!" London Answers. |