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    May 71870. J THE TOM AIIA IVK. 183 ,

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    TITB ROUJSrJDABOUT RAMBLES.

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    May 71870. J The Tom Aiia Ivk. 183 ,

    May 71870 . J THE TOM AIIA IVK . 183 ,

    Titb Roujsrjdabout Rambles.

    TITB ROUJSrJDABOUT RAMBLES .

    [Continued By Our Special Correspondent....

    [ continued by our special correspondent . ] I CANNOT do bettersince I Lugworth have alread , zjth made April allusion , iS 70 . , y the that lecture fatal evening at the Lugworth ' s entertainment Literary , than Institution give you , reminding my notes you of , b into y way the midst a preface of the , suspended of the initiatory laurel trop leap h taken y ! by the Chief 8 . 5 ft m . The chief refuses to come clown . I have hazarded to the vicar that jumping into a friend ' s trophy is the greatest compliment one man can pay another in Pokyar , and he has explained this genuine to the and audience spontaneous , who warmth seem much of feeling moved . / by shall the Icl Chief him ' s alone nicely for a little the present later . , I and never can feel onl quite y hope easy he when will come he is on down the is top about of anything to begin . ; it I always wish I excites had not him undertaken horribly . it I The lecture ; : ¦ « - * * * panorama Spagmore of has Gravesend just called that he me had out hired to say to represent that the moving the inmust terior get of South through Central the thing Africa as , well has as not we arrived can with , and some that comic we magic lantern slides . He says , however , that one or two will try do ing cap to itall arrange y , and that them I . must Great " talk commotion up " to the in the others lecture . We -room are . more I do hope advises the me Chief to send has not round been at once up to to the any butcher foolery . ' for Sp five agpounds paper . of He tri says pe , it and will fling keep it him to him quiet wrapped till he is wanted in an evening for his lectual protest look against to the Paganism threepenny , and places give him . I will an educated do it . Row and on intel the - increase . I must see what it is . Nothing much . The Chief is merely hanging by his 8 . 15 feet p . m and stretching Chinese idol out that towards the vicar the lecture has kindl -table lent to secure for the a occasion rare brass . I little have private explained curse that , an it is announcement merely pious y horror that has venting been itself received in a who with , thunders with a hungry of app yell lause , has . p I lunged have flung back the into tri pe old to the position Chief . , On the whole , things seem to be going on very nicely 8 . . 25 p . m .

    picture We are and quite Spagmore ready . is I to am put to in announce the most the a ] s 3 ubject propriate of each slide he with has , but . , Unfortunatel Spagmore says y , we if we hav put e no in a romatrope view of the Needles finish up by done rap moonli id . succession ght , and get of the back Chief somersaults to hold with the lantern it , the , thing and will turn be a Have got through my introductory speech , occasionall S . 30 y p rather . m . has ever disagreeabl , kep sent t questioning him y interrupted in a private my b y the ts message about German Pok , to scientific yar say . that Spagmore exp a lorer celebrated , , how who - IZng tournament lish playe at r dominoes ( the linkman " for ) fourpenee would be , and glad he to p has lay him left the " a p surrounded latform , and by it a seems crowd he of is stable at it now boys , , in the a half tap penny -room a of game the , Blue Dragon . # * # ¦ # •* harm All onium going , w is ell being . Room played is darkened very softl for y the by mag Miss ic lanter Flappers n . , A a maiden lady of eight-and-thirty , who has undertaken the duty i out nterval of regard s of the for music the Chief you , could who , s almost he says , hear is " a dear pin . " drop In , the the onl the y Chief sound aloft being In the the gnawing dark , however snorting , it is flesh not without tearing its of comp effect , animent and I think to , an is account really rather of , these a grand wild , and and trackless appropriate regions ac- ! The I have vicar said has asked is merel me in y his a whisper emotion what , and the that Chief he is of is a about very . sensitive and highly nervous nature . The vicar has said " Oh , " and I do wish I think the seem chief s would satisfied not , and swallow is listening large again lumps attentivel with such y . relish ! K- * * -ft * •)!• * * Having led gracefully up to it , I have announced the

    firstp m icture iles nor — " th The of yo upper 7 a-fo 7 cataract a , the modern of the capital Zambezi of Pok , five yai'P 7 ntndrcd ¦ x- # -x- -x- * * An annoying interval . Spagmore has put in the slide . It bage I'epresents , and a a man sheet with of Prussian yellow trousers blue water , carmine , one tree coat , like and flushed a cabcomplexion , fishing for a whale . It has fallen , a little flat . I must really speak to Spag-more . 9 . 20 ^ . 7 // . subjects No good as , as announced the following them table , side will by show side . with Here the are slides the Spagmore put in to the lantern : — yar , known -jow , the in cap Central ital of Africa Pok- during Three the pink operation houses , of built the as Spires the . " " City of the Thousand grass Window of inach plot Tax , . covered , on emerald with green tufts Emperor Hubolo of o the Pok N inth , surnamed , reigning late A D rather uke of good Wellington head of . the " the Feverish . " Native customs ( various ) . A man with a pig ' s head . A comic slide ( a bull tossing an apple funeral woman of ) . Lord Nelson . Exchange The opening . of the Coal tail A with woman a carving cutting -knife off ( a move cat ' s - A portrait of the Chief at able Comic slide ) head . of Bluebeard , the age of sixteen . teeth with . rolling eyes and moving Pok Missionary yars . work among the history and Six the pictures of Eruption Mother , comprising of Hubbard Vesuvius the , —upside down ! been You ; will but I see am from in hopes the above no one how noticed very difficult anything the odd , task Spag has more says , being a country audience , anything would have done denunciation for them . I am of g Paganism lad of this may , as I prove begin to a fear mistake that . the He Chief has ' s finished to descend the . tripe , and seems on the look-out for an opportunity

    He is down with a rush , and has gone through a war dance kicked with such off the gour latfo that rm every . The body back , including of the the harmonium Vicar , has too been is broken I have just , and announced p the report his of the " Address School . " Committee He is quiet swallowed for a . moment , and the people are returning to their places , the Chief's Vicar address has being risen justl to y regarded a few words as the b event of of the an evening introduction . The . say y way when He , however he was , had felled by y got the out Chief with , who " M has y Christian leapt on friends to the , " and table I have It is prepared all right for . He him . is going to speak what Spagmore ******** published The rest I subjoi next n from in the a verbatim Lugwor report th Mercu of ry the : — proceedings no bi Ch g " ief worshi pai Great ) nted app p a up Jow wood rentl roar . devil ( noth fo Applaus llowed . I daunted e spits , . ) bu He t on , the con him humbug reverend tinued , pokes , . he fire gentleman In black Pok with guard yarre him , ( we th , I e mittee makes being mangle moved of him to . * tears ( Immense ) . You have applause no Jow , ? na I / ty No of the Jow Com —no - Jow looked —no about Jow him ( the Rev uneasil . Gentleman y ) but you seemed worshi at p a him loss —fat here , devil and ( pointing to the Vicar ) black devil ( uproar ) big tripe father ! You Gentleman worshi se ps ised him hold —whoohoohooohooohooo of a three-foot brass Chin ( here ese im the Rev that , had idola been try , and broug apparen ht for tly the worsh ftitrpose ipped of it illnsiraiing fervently ) . the subject worshi age , ps of hou and this devils r a gentlemans fri l into > y g the h tri tful pe arrival — uproar ! he ( He of is re ensued a tin the detachment , god Rev wh — ich . Gentleman can was of turn the only ijlh ten flew quelled Lancers thousand at the at a from i Ica lu fat te r Nottingham ) . "

    * Sp . agmore ' s idea Hi is .

• Citation
  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 7, 1870, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_07051870/page/11/