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THE CONVERTED CLOWN AT CADOXTON.

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THE CONVERTED CLOWN AT CADOXTON. Mr. King. the Converted Clown." is conducting a service of Temperance Meetings at Cadoxton this week. A Starman's impressions of his Monday night's lecture were of a mixed nature. Mr. King was and is an excellent clown, and he may be an excellent pastor, but as a lecturer he is not convincing. He made some good hits he told some things well: but his hits were quite outside his subject, and the things he told well smacked more of clown than of the convert. To parody Dr. Johnson's saying. There were some things in which he was attractive, and some things in which he dealt with temperance, but those things that were attractive had no con- nection with tempcrance, and those things which dealt with temperance were not attractive." His self-complacent smirk when alluding to the photo- graph of his mother's sion made one forget the egotism and bad taste in the grotesque comicality of the remark. Go to befr him He will amuse you. sometimes he will instruct you, and he will never convince you.

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