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$10,000,000 a Week for Limericks THE NEW YORKER's Greatest Contest - Let's Go, Bunch! THE NEW YORKER's Big O N your toes, boys! The dam has Limerick Contest something! Hold your horses! Has he $10,000,000 a Week for Cash Prizes said something? Who can tell, and who not? It's all in the first four lines of the Limerick printed in the coupon at the left. Greenie, at the moment, seems to be standing around with an open mouth. A fellow whose name was OʻGreen Was the dumbest bird ever you seen, Two to one he can't stay that way for- But one day on Broadway A girl heard him say ever. No, Siree, Bob! So everybody get set, for the big ride to the Magic Caves! Write your last line in the space above and be sure not to send it or this coupon to For the Five Best Last Lines The New YORKER 25 West 45th Street, submitted to complete the Limerick in the cou- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. pon-or Barrie's "Shall We Join the Ladies?" MY NAME IS (Solomon Levi). ....... or "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" or milady's toilette-THE NEW YORKER would like to be able STREET ADDRESS. (Asparagus Farms).... to pay the following handsome big cash CITY....(New Haven). STATE...(Maudlin) PRIZES: · First Prize $8,000,000 THIS WEEK'S WINNERS Second Prize 6,000,000 who share in the big prizes for completing the Limerick printed in our issue of January 32. The Limerick read: Third Prize 9,000,000 A young man who wanted to see the sights Fourth Prize, Name your own figure Hungaround the Follies stage door nights after nights, But the girls were all dodgers, · Fifth Prize A Blue Star Card He never even saw Will Rogers, Use the coupon in submitting your last line or, to be sure of winning a prize, write it on the back of Last lines which the prize winners wrote or otherwise sent a dollar bill and send it in. You can mail as many in are: solutions as the boss has stamps Remember, a FIRST PRIZE $65 Limerick is a jingle in which the last line rhymes He Reminds me of Briggs's "When a Feller Needs a with something you once heard. Friend." Written by FRED BEAMISH, Yale Club, New York ALL LAST LINES SECOND PRIZE--We Were Only Playing Leapfrog THE RULES FOR So he took his sister to the Public Library This contest is limited ex. Written by J. F., Yale Club, New York THIS WEEK'S clusively to employees of TAE NEW YORKER and THIRD PRIZE-Tell Cartier's To Send Me The Bill CONTEST MUST their families. You don't He Reminds me of Briggs's "When a Peller Needs a have to be a subscriber to Friend." REACH US NOT enter the contest. If you're Written by AMY LOWELL, Yale Club. New York not a subscriber and win a prize, we're a Chinaman. FOURTH PRIZE $9,000 LATER THAN Now go on with the story. And occasionally John Jacob Astor. Don't give up your job MIDNIGHT, until you hear (rom us. Weltten by COTTON MATHER. Yale Club, New York There is no steady em- DOOMSDAY, ployment in Limerick $10,000,000 MORE FOR LIMERICKS NEXT WEEK writing. - BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR DEFENSE FEBRUARY 29 . Digitized by Google