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Around the World in 80 Days

PROPRIETOR,
LAST REPRESENTATIONS,
PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE TO THE UNITED
STATES,
OF THE
LONG NOSES! LONG NOSES!
UNDER THE DIRECT PATRONAGE OF THE GOD
TINGOU!
GREAT ATTRACTION!

‘The United States!’ said Passepartout; ‘that’s just what I
want!’
He followed the clown, and soon found himself once
more in the Japanese quarter. A quarter of an hour later he
stopped before a large cabin, adorned with several clusters
of streamers, the exterior walls of which were designed to
represent, in violent colours and without perspective, a
company of jugglers.
This was the Honourable William Batulcar’s
establishment. That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the
director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns,
acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the
placard, was giving his last performances before leaving the
Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union.
Passepartout entered and asked for Mr. Batulcar, who
straightway appeared in person.

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