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    • « DROPPED AMONG THE PRIGS? A NOVEL OP PRINCIPLE. (N.B.—Not taken from Britannia.)
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      ^R Efiruary6, 1869. . The Tomahawk. 61

      ^ r efiruary 6 , 1869 . . THE TOMAHAWK . 61

      « Dropped Among The Prigs? A Novel Op Principle. (N.B.—Not Taken From Britannia.)

      « DROPPED AMONG THE PRIGS ? A NOVEL OP PRINCIPLE . ( N . B . —Not taken from Britannia . )

      ®S * Igrasglagu*, A Legacy With A Vengea...

      ® S * Igrasglagu * , A Legacy with a Vengeance . CHAPTER VI . IN WHICH THE SKELETON DOES NOT GO DOWN TO DINNER . Oh , my bones !

      Oh , my bones ! ! Oh , ray bones ! ! ! Christy Minstrels { original ) . " Here we are again ! " No , I mean , —we are in another place In Rizzio now . * Halla grand house . Diogenes Out with ' fleas your for , the tub ! nonce on with ! steal your Dive sneer s' solid ! borrow leather fiort of - monnaie , that does duty for a heart I You "Wh are y ? " going do you to ask be ? introduced to Ferdinand Cavendish

      Fitzg < A clever ibbon Desboroug family wer h e . the Desboroughs . Papa Desborough was ate all a b the aronet butter ; he and invented left the a bread bread . -and-butter machine , which cannon Captain -ball Fitzg which ibbon was Desborou warranted gh to , of kill the nobod Pioneers under , invented a Com - mander-in- Chief . y And Ferdinand , what did he do ? He was a great author ; he Ah invented ! he was the clever celebrated , he was riddle ; he , " could Why get is a his door money like a by door his ?" brains deal for . them Calves . ' Ha brains ! Ha are ! Ha very ! nice on toast . I'd pay a good How Come does , no laug he make hing : his Ferdy toilet is ? at Ah his ! toilet now . all the hairdressers but and dressing won't . * -case makers think I am going to advertise them , Pray Up the follow oak staircase , reader , , if two you steps can . at a time ; past the great ortraitstne stana Die

      sage iamuy , past p her , ana ladyship umorena ' s chamber . ; ( F on ie , Dy me mar hty reader pas- forgive Don ' t peep you . ) throug Past h the the chamber key-hole , where or Madam girls e Jezabel are gigg will ling never —no roo woma m , — n can and laug here h you till are she outside is of age Ferdy —past ' s the sanctum baronet . ' s dressing-In you go . On the table before him is a bone—from Evans ' s — B not ut a we grill must ed bone get to —no the , reader Skeleton , no . ; so let us dismiss Ferdy . bacco Suffice from it to Turkey say , he (!) got Th his e latter morality was from the better Greece of and the two his . to-Rizzio In th e drawing e other - , room light two and girls affable —one , Flossy dark and ; the haughty Baronet , , Eliza and his Sir Lady Rupert . was in a deuced bad temper . " Don ' t ! " said her Ladyship . " Don ' t what ? »

      " " Bite I ' m not your dead lips . yet At . " your age you can ' t afford to lose blood . " you "No did ; pay Craper that bill Mute for will the sti — ck n it on for your funeral , though " Female ! " roared the Baronet . little i " " Sir Aunt bill Rup . , for you ert the are ! creature call disagreeable me female who— . before " ' Eliza the says girl this s ! with I repeat her — flash that - ng " eyes Eliza !" The door opens , and enter—the Skeleton ? No I Ferdy . Skeletons Down to only dinner come , — down but not to dessert the Skeleton . . No I reader , no I

      with * This Major Is , Blake of course . . ( Co , mmission ironical . moderate Tradesmen . ) can bo honourably referred to by communicating with . P I . import o . O . not it direct less than , myself £ 5 , to for Major n few Blako friends . . 1 expect a large chest next week . Address , ,

      ®S * Igrasglagu*, A Legacy With A Vengea...

      CHAPTER VI I . THE BILLY DOO . Do To you the wish irl to whom send a letter adore ? Don Else ' t you you g ' send ll hear it b of y you it the no postman more !* , Songs by a Commissionaire .

      Yes Sir , Rupert reader , poison and Ferdy . Alcohol are drinking is a poison poison . . Wine contains alcohol Logical . Wine ehMr is . a Scholar poison . ? a syllog Logic is , a , and great , every thing woman , a wonderful is his Major invention Premise . Every . 1 man is And what is life but a series of fallacies ? In Dario ? Perhaps : perhaps not . Who knows ? I don ' t . The cl No M , y not door dear the opens boy Skeleton , bless , and . you in Leopold walks ! " says — Leopard the Baronet . . Ci Have some

      dozen of this , bottle South s returned African ) . port You or will some not of long this survive Greek wine it . " ( 8 s . a " Snob 1 " says Ferdy to himself , not of himself . He never spoke Saturated the truth with . He the could juice not of buy the that South at his African tailor ' s vine . they mount Flossy to lean the drawing fondly over room a . banjo . She " Play does us , a and tune sings , oh do a kind I" says of du Leopold et thus— . 1 st Verse : — Le Flossy opold .- — . — I ' m Oh going ! vou down dear to ! de old Bandanna .

      Flossy Leopold . — . — I ' m Angel going mine down !* with ole Susanna . Flossy . —I ' ve hired a coach and a grand planner . Leopold Flossy . — Goll -I adore y , Goll you y ! ! ! 2 nd Verse : — Leopold Flossy . — . — I ' ve Will got you two be yallo mine w gals ? in de dickey . Leopold Flossy . — . — One You ' s Jemima madden , rne and ! toder ' s Viccy .

      L Flos eopold sy . — . — They I'll die both for are you pitching ! into the licky . Flossy . —Golly , Golly ! Yah ! tates They the both bones dance with a a breakdown paper-knife . and Ferd a pen y ( who -tray . is clever ) imisongs Oh ! of what negro it h ead to — be I mean young negro and land clever — , with and the to g sing irl of s your weet heart ! No , don ' t say I ' m cynical , reader , I swear to you I am in earnest kjo 1 , wnat cruel it earnest is 10 . mat it not

      . nave a nearr , ana Know s an rignt — at for the Love other has end got and his hears stethoscope nothing up , because , and Father he is Time deaf listens ; and for Lov ever e—l . ying , light , larking Love—tells you the throbs will last But they won't . He L thoug eopold went he was away sing singing ing it , like " Golly Flossy , Golly . ! Yah i" like a fool . to But a West it is -end not music every - man hall to that have can singing afford lessons to send . his daughter it . " " The letter , where is it ? It ' s gone , and I forgot to deliver

      " I have missed my vocation ; I should have been the postman . " " Or a telegraph clerk . Alas ! " And he went home . under But the look lime with light m . , reader , over that man ' s shoulder there , do ' Ilfaut not right vivre to read . 2 . other people ' s letters . But what can you This " My was own the chucksy billy-doo -wucksy : — —( I am not changed , you see , ) " I'll be with you at 11 . 15 sharp , in your room . I'll come up

      * x No My relation corps of to Commissionaires me . I hate logic can . ( be Major trusted Wake . . K ) ate of pay , sd , a mile . ( Major Blake . ) personal s Ah I security It . l ' 'AUT V— , indeed MAJok : but BLAKli how , , in u sordid atfe , when nobody will lend you ; £ i , ooo on the best

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 6, 1869, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_06021869/page/9/