[Ads-l] "A village is missing its idiot."

[Bill Mullins]

1979 K. Fawdry Pollock's History of English Dolls & Toys 140/2

The rarest item is supposed to be the Village Idiot—added to the catalogue after Queen Mary, on being shown a large layout of Britain’s Home Farm at the British Industries Fair, is said to have exclaimed, ‘But surely the village idiot is missing?’

https://archive.org/details/pollockshistoryo0000fawd/page/140/mode/1up?q=%22idiot+is+missing%22

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