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    • ¦ MORAL 7 A LBS FOR LITTLE STA7ESMEM
    • OUT OF THE KENNEL.
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      Iviarch 7, 1863.] The Tomahawk. 95

      IVIarch 7 , 1863 . ] THE TOMAHAWK . 95

      Who Speaks Xirst1

      WHO SPEAKS XIRST 1

      To The Editor Of The " Tomahawk." Else S...

      TO THE EDITOR OF THE " TOMAHAWK . " else Sir I , mig —M ht y find maxim a home is neve for r to some hit a very chap hard when hits he is somewhere down , or I about your body . I suppose you have forgotten that letter which I addressed to you on the subject of the late Mr . Speke } —when I say late , I mean as a mystery , not as an individual .

      you Yes Yes burnt ! ! you vou it threw threw , or otherwise that that letter letter destroyed into into your vour it waste waste ; in short paper naoer , you basket basket never - , or or read it . lished You it little would know have what made you did . fortune That letter . Zadkiel , if you would had have pubbeen nowhere , . Dr . Cumming your would have retired on a small pension . The Racing Prophets would have been crushed .

      Why Wh ? y ? Do you ask why ? Because in that letter I argued from tion of conjecture the existing based evidence on experience with non , and -existing from a facts careful , that colla the - Rev . B . Speke had gone on a secret tour through the provinces as a comic entertai ? ier hi the style of Woodin / How did I know it ? Never mind . I did know it , and you

      lett mig e ht r , but have you known did not it too . — You had never you been even wise sent and me published a gold watch my , edges or a . copy No of ! you the were Tomahaw too mean k , . Vol . I ., bound , with bevilled All I I am say not is , going was I to right triump ? Was h over the you Rev . . I B . could Speke , but found I sha dis ' nt - . guised disguises as about a drover his , person with lots , or of was money he , not and ? a Does number that of confirm other brated my speculations song" I'd , or be does a Drover it not bold ? Was and he free practising " or was his he cele not - ]

      Did he mean , to give a new impetus to sacre , d harmony as a polygrap How do hic artist feel , or now did Sir he . not ? I own I am you proud ; just , a little . When I wake in the morning I feel elevated . I am having my photograph done ( in a helmet and knickerbockers ) , as the Patriot of Peckham Rye .

      Pardonable vanity , you will say . It is—very pardonable . is I safe feel ; like he will a public not be benefactor murdered . between Henceforth a hatter the ' s Londoner in Warwick six to street half-past , and ) . the No Houses ! I feel of as P if arliament I had taken ( and off the the hours Income of - the tax , way or extinguished out of Abyssinia the Metropolitan . B ® ard of Works , or found

      Understand Understand this this . , Sir Sir . , I I wo wojvt ii't have have a a statue statue . . I I don don '' t t mind mind a a piece Learn of p from late , or this a purse humility , and . many Learn of also them , Sir . , that intelligent have detectives a very are hig needed h salary , with . I know high salaries what you , the are chief going detective to say , — to " / ought to be the chief detective . " You are right . Take this piece of advice : don't for the future destroy letters because

      they come from persons vftxom . you do not know . Yours , nevertheless Veritas , . Peckham P . S . —I forg Rye ive , Feb you . . 23 . Would you like to send anything towards the fund I am organising for the above purpose ? If so , I shall not be offended .

      [ Note . —Our correspondent ' s advice is not needed . We never not read destroy his , but letters we have without it by reading us . On them referring . We to certainl that length y have y with document prove a that metallic , . Mr we . find S pencil peke that , was and it murdered his contains body concealed an by an elaborate omnibus in the argument conductor straw on to the of respect floor of to the truth omnibus . —Ed . . Tomahawk We publish . ] his letter , however , out

      ¦ Moral 7 A Lbs For Little Sta7esmem

      ¦ MORAL 7 A LBS FOR LITTLE STA 7 ESMEM

      Ill-Gotten Gains Ever Prosper. There Was...

      ILL-GOTTEN GAINS EVER PROSPER . There was once a bad little boy named Benjamin , who was out for very a walk fond with of app his les friend and Cecil nice and things passed . One by day the he orchard went ri of pe Farmer fruit . Whig " See , , " when said Benjamin the trees , " , were what covered fine app with les are beautifu there l , replied let us climl Cecil p , over " they the do wall not belong and take to us some , and of it them is not . " ri " ght No to , "

      Ill-Gotten Gains Ever Prosper. There Was...

      jamin steal . " , " " There for they is nobod are very y to nice see , , " and and I will he began have some to climb , " said up Ben the - ourselves wall . " Come , and grow away , finer " said app Cecil les , than " and those we will , and p they lant an will orchard be our to own look , and at we them may , " said eat them Benjamin . " " . Let " Yes me , " get said on Cecil your , " shoulders for there is and no when harm he in saw that all . " the So apples Benjamin quite stood close on to him Cecil he ' s shoulders called out , " Stand fastfor I shall get over the wall . " " Nono" said Cecil

      , , ,, " Cecil that flat is wrong down . " on But the Benjamin ground , and gave got a spring over the , which wall . threw Then poor he picked and went a great back many into the app hi les gh , road and with put them them . into Now his policeman pockets , People was looking on all the time , and he caught Benjamin as he said came he . down Then Benjamin from the was wall . very " What frightened have , but you he got answered there , " " Please Sir I have been icking some les for —see how

      pappyou man fine they took are the ! " and apples he showed and Benjamin some of to them the . mag Then istrate the police Mr - . policeman Posterity , who divided was the deaf app and les blind between , and them the , mag and istrate praised and , Ben the - jamin grew great for er his and courage greater and , and cleverness he lived happ , and ily Benjamin to the end ' s of fam his e days , but Cecil v / as put into a dark hole for making a disturbance .

      THE REWARD OF INDUSTRY . always There knew was his a lessons little boy , and calle never d the idled Peop away le' his s William time , so , who that was his masters an older praised boy than him him very , had much always . But been his first friend in John the , class who , and it made him angry to see that William knew his lessons better than anybody else , so he took William's exercises and

      could scribbled not all be read over them by anybod till they y . were Then covered when the with day writing came , and for the giving exercises prizes to and those said who that had they done were well nonsense , the master , and he looked gave the at and first live prize with to John him , and and asked William him was , and called all his a blockhead cousins , to which come grieved him very much , , so that he went out to Foreign , Lands to seek his fortune . And after wandering about a long time he was beasts eaten . up by Beales and Potter , and the rest of the wild

      Out Of The Kennel.

      OUT OF THE KENNEL .

      The Result Of The Negotiations That Have...

      The result of the negotiations that have recently taken subject place between of Naturalization the American , is and alread Prussian y known Governments . What arrange , on the - yet ment , vmcertain will eventuall . We y , therefore be made , with have this much country pleasure is , h in owever publish , as - ing perusal the alone following , from American the fact that programme it embodies , which the is views worth of y the of more moderate party who are agitating this question on the

      other side of the Atlantic : — Notice . —To United States Citizens and Others . mint Any , wishing European to , Asiatic become , Britisher a free-born , J ew , citizen Nigger of , or the other United var-States 1 . of Commit America some , must offence — against the laws of his own State ; 2 . Thereupon skedaddle ;

      3 . Visit the immortal city of New York ; 4 . Come down with a dollar . He will then , be entitled to enjoy all the privileges attaching America to the free , and and can enlightened return forthwith citizenship to of his the former United S domicile tates of , where 1 . , u Consider nder the that protection creating of the a disturbance Stars and Stri entitles pes , he him will to — a

      2 . Regard vote of pocket thanks -picking ; as a recreation ; 4 3 . . Indul Go in ge for in high manslaug treason hter , witli and thoroug murder h ad confidence libitum ; in the sewing And -machine furthermore protecting , American , powers be it understood of cheese his own , clock , Government that , any revolver bod . y , owning or other a fixing having , constructed a partiality in for the cock said -tails United , General States Grant of America , spittoons , or , tions five-twenties , may claim , boiler the -busting motherly , and protection other suchlike ( pay it ing Yankee the sum no of - one dollar down ) of the said States , and ^ ct accordingly .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 7, 1868, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_07031868/page/3/