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    April 9, 1870.] THE TOMAHA WK. 143

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    THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES.

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    [CONTINUED BY OUR SPEdAL-CORRESPONDENT.]...

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    E VENING-DRESS EXTRA ORDLiVAR Y.

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    On Wednesday last the Prince of Wales pr...

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    April 9, 1870.] The Tomaha Wk. 143

    April 9 , 1870 . ] THE TOMAHA WK . 143

    The Roundabout Rambles.

    THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES .

    [Continued By Our Spedal-Correspondent.]...

    [ CONTINUED BY OUR SPEdAL-CORRESPONDENT . ] Lugworth Hall , 1 st April , 1 S 70 . the You Chief will upstairs have been on that expecting dreadful " , doubtless night ! , to You hear already ho-iv we know got how he approached the housestartling the deathlike stillness of to the hear avenue how with when his I ferocious opened , the yells front . You door have with , however a look , yet of earnest entreaty , on my face that he would go , upstairs quietly , he rolled in head over heels , engaged in a terrible struggle with the bloodhound . Nor was this all ! Close after him came the four and making policemen use , all of badl frightful y hurt oaths , shouting . In amazement out in angry I held altercation up the , itself nightlig defied ht , and descri for ption about . five Instead minutes of the the Chief scene taking that presented any heed g of ive my him appeal . fresh , the zest faint and flicker he renewed of the his nightli ferocious ght seemed strugg onl le with y to redoubled energy . , Eveiy article of furniture and every ornament pedestal in the lamps vast hunting hall was trop in turn hies upset and , men and massive in armour oak fell chairs one , after the other , in a succession , of ringing crashes upon the polished marble floor . At length numbers triumphed , and we the grasp secured bloodhound . the Giving Chief an , in ug a a l very y corner and powerfull ominous , managing bay y-built , at the the creature brute same spran time , from g to away free his from us and dashed up stairs . At this juncture the Chief darted at ive the nig an htl accurate ight , and idea we were of what all left followed in total I must darkness refer ! to To g notes you taken on the spot . my 3 . 5 a . m . expected Everything as much pitch ! dark My . aunt A lull is , at all the of top us being of the exhausted stairsasking . I what is the matter ? I have said " It ' s only me" in an off , -hand way , as if that settled the matter ; but she is not satisfied , and wants to know what I am doing , as she heard a noise . I have told her " I dropped something , and that it ' s all right , and that I am looking for it . " The four policemen seem to enter into the joke , and hold their breath and chuckle . My aunt tells me severely that it is scarcely a laughing matter for me to stay up till this hour and then arouse the household . She also wants to know who passed her door just now moaning . She means the bloodhound . I have told her 1 think it was the cook with a toothache . A nasty interval of suspense . I can ' t tell what has become of the Chief , for he seldom makes a noise in the dark . I begin to fear he has crept upstairs after the bloodhound . I wish my aunt would retire , for if he were to come along the passage on her all fours a serious it would sliock be and extremel be y utterl embarrassing y beyor . cl - , — exp probabl lanation y give at breakfast the next morning , . 3 . 15 a . m . She lias gone back to her room at last ! There might now be a chance of" retiring quietly , if it were not for the four policemen who want to know " what I mean to sta 7 idjbr the job . " I have , shown them into the dining-room , and told them to take what they like , but to be sure to get off at daybreak . If they finish the Chief contents ) had come of all off the a decanters long journey , I must , and say that that he my picked friend up ( the the habit of finishing everything on the sideboard in the East . •>;• ¦ * « x-* * * * A loud scream from the further end of the picture-gallery upstairs . I expected some catastrophe of this sort ! It must be the Chief and Lady Poppins 1 * * * * * * * * Have groped my way up-stairs , and realised my worst fears . 4 a . m . and Have I hope had fati fearfu gue l may work cause to get him him to to sleep bed , well but he into is there the day at last , so , that I may have time to think what on earth I am to do , and how without I can having possibl a y life get -quarrel him out with , or pass my him aunt . off I as am a too forei sleepy gner , now to enter into all the details of the fright he occasioned Lady Poppins , suffice it to say that the maid managed to recover her from a severe fit of hysterics . The Chief , however ,

    has got her wig , and I am expecting some very unpleasant busi- - ness at breakfast from this affair alone . As to the bloodhound , , when I saw it last it was sitting down for the night on the ' a cherry leg of -satin boiled , ottoman mutton in that the it drawing had picked -room up , over somewhere the remains down of - ' stairs . The policemen , have gone , for I saw them in the dim morning light reeling down the lawn , and throwing the croquet something balls at the . Thank conservatory goodness . Still the , Chief they is are securel gone , y and locke that d into is the blue-room , and can't get out until I produce the key . I am now off to bed . -X- -i ' r v » - # -it * * Next morning , 10 a . m . We are all assembled at breakfast . Conversation general . an I do excuse not see for Lad her y non Popp - ins , but my on aunt the tells score me of her she increased has sent neuralgia . Of course , appearance the loss of her wig is the real cause . As the soon door as I , or can thro get w it it from throug the h Chief the window I must or either down put the chimney it under , partl hazard or introduce y a sort little of bit it way into of , gallantry as the if room it . were At in all some partl events y , chance a practical I must , off-hand manage joke , hap and it - somehow . Fortunately , not many people seem , to have heard 1 the of the row east in the wing nig , ht compared . A General it to the Scruff final , who attack slept on the at the left line end shouting at the battle on that of Zingawer celebrated , but occasion seemed . to He say has that promised there was not less to mention this to my aunt . Several inquiries have been made to me alread as to I have " my received friend ' s" hal health f-a-dozen , after invitations his long fro journey m the , sur and - rounding y gentry . Lord Bolchester insists on my bringing him he to his shal daug l come hter . ' s marriage to-morrow , and I have promised that *** **** * servants My aunt has , who just was beckoned called to out me of to follow the room her b on y to one the of lawn the . * , * * - * -::- *• * * emerged I expected from an some old horror Elizabethan of the chimney kind . . The He has Chief recognised has just anti Bitterl me , quarian and y at I a hav and loss e that tuhat been science to forced say , alone I to have introduce has told induced her him he him is to a to my profound do aunt such . , but an apparentl I can see y she extraordinary thinks it a thing liberty . . She seems pacified a little , chuckle The . Chief I have has approached thrown something to pick it at up , us saying , with he a must prolonged have discovered some rare old MSS . in the chimney , or some relic of the Wars of the Roses . * * * « * -i ¦ * ¦ * I also feared this . It is Lady Popfiius ^ s wig .

    E Vening-Dress Extra Ordlivar Y.

    E VENING-DRESS EXTRA ORDLiVAR Y .

    On Wednesday Last The Prince Of Wales Pr...

    On Wednesday last the Prince of Wales presided at Freemason ' s Hall at a Banquet of the Royal Masonic Institute for Boys . Upwards of six hundred members of the craft were present quote a , contemporary and amongst ) them , were , " E in arl their de Grey full Masonic , the Duke clothing of Man ( we - chester , the Earl of Jersey , Earl Percy , Lord Kenlis , the Marthe quis fullest of Hartington Masonic , clothing M . P ., and consists the Marquis of an apron of Hamilton and a decora . " As - | tion attached to a bit of red ribbon , we take it the appearance of the noble Masons in question must have attracted considerable attention . The newspaper , however , to which we are indebted for the description of the banquet might well have forborn to have dcvulged to the vulgar world this latest spcret of the craft . No doubt Masons know what they are about ; but to the outside world it would seem that the attire attributed to the noble gentlemen above-named must not only have been all very very chill well y , but in just its proper the least place bit ; indecent but Great . Primitive Queen simp street licity Lin is - j , coln is not ' s- the Inn- Garden Fields , in of which Eden the nor Freemason is one of the ' s Tavern coldest is nights situated of , an "full English Masonic March clothing precisel ' is y , dc suited rigiteur for . a Masonic We hope festival none , of where the ' noble Masons above-mentioned have caught cold .

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 9, 1870, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_09041870/page/11/