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_Champion Bill-Poster, loquitur_:--
"Bill-stickers beware!" Ah! that's all very well,
A wondrously wise, if conventional, warning.
But _I_'m the legitimate "Poster"--a swell
In the paste-pot profession, all "notices" scorning.
A brush surreptitious, and Bills unofficial,
No doubt, are a nuisance to people of taste,
To Order offensive, to Law prejudicial,
But who can object to _my_ pot and _my_ paste?
'Tis time that this Poster were up! _Slap-dap-slosh_!
I think it a telling one. Brave, Big, Blue letters!
Some rivals about, but _their_ programmes won't wash;
Those Newcastle noodles must own us their betters.
I'm Champion Bill-Poster! Even Brum JOEY,
Who flouted me once will acknowledge that fact.
My Bills are so goey, and fetching, and showy,
My paste so adhesive, my brush so exact!
_Slap-slop-slidder-slosh_! There's "stick-phast," if you like.
Bill-sticking like this is an Art, and no error.
Bold letters, brave colour! A poster to strike,--
Admiration with some, and with some, perhaps, terror.
I wish I quite knew that the former preponderate,--
That is, _sufficiently_. Mutterings I hear,--
But there, 'tis a Bill to admire, and to wonder at.
Why, after five seasons' success, should I fear?
Hist! What is that? Thought I heard a low grunt.
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