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274 THE TOMAHAWK, [November 9, 1867,
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THIS DAY'S INTELLIGENCE FROM ABYSSINIA.
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.(From the Creature King in The our odor...
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IN THE SMOKING-ROOM.
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After dinner. Dawdle and Dangle over the...
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Butcher The 's most . Unpopular Meet of ...
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St New . Martin Book s-le-G op rand Trav...
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274 The Tomahawk, [November 9, 1867,
274 THE TOMAHAWK , [ November 9 , 1867 ,
This Day's Intelligence From Abyssinia.
THIS DAY'S INTELLIGENCE FROM ABYSSINIA .
.(From The Creature King In The Our Odor...
. ( From the Creature King in The our odore pay . ) at the Court of Head 6 Quarters th November , Deborah , 1867 Camp . , Thf . TJT . was n stir in t"hf » famr * at an imnsuallv earlv "hour
this Ministers morning shortl , caused y after by sunrise the King . His convoking Majesty received a council the of great his lectivel officers y of , de state clared in himself the royal to be tent in , great and addressing perplexity . them colmanded " Who Hjyd has dared Abon , the to disturb favourite the minister Imperial , with repose deferential ? " deindignation dreamed " Oh Abon an . awful ! " pursued dream the . This King morn in trembling as slumberi tones , " on I have this couch I lav—it was font : a few moments , sinns—I saw ng a . vision
the themselves of an misty awful g , loom I Britisher believed , and its ! ( for As pallid it was the features the dread nose spectre one I first by emerged one beheld disclosed ) from that that me it was to visited the its patent shade me ; - but leather of Wellington when boots the , whole I ( a perceived gre figure at warrior had it to , risen my be friends a before very ) little mission man . , in a black coat . The spectre thus announced its it " said * I , am " one and of I Her have Majesty the honour ' s princi to pal inform Secretaries you of that State Her / " the Majesty British ' s Government prisoners now has decided held by to your enforce Majesty the surrender . That you of may you that know we how have futile sent will 1 , 500 be men resistance from , India I may to as your well shores inform , and we have purchased 20 . 000 mules at / to a . ni ^ r ^ in "Kiim-n e * .
That a million ' and you " Stay did allies not Sir make Secretary would me ladl acquainted , " I interrupted have sold with . your " ten I arrangement regret times , indeed the number s , , that I to of manage mules my for them a quarter , thrown g of in y the . " money , you with men who know how have " ' Too already late pai , too d for late the / continued beasts , and the am spectr shortly e mournfull going to y . ask ' I my surel Parliament see that we for are the in money earnest to buy them ive , with , so ten minutes you to " decide Ten y minutes whether , Sir you John will ! fi " ght I exclaimed or , surrender g , " . Why ' you Lord Russell tnnlr nparlv thrpp vparc tr % rpniv frn mv 1 < aft # » r ** -nri vmt ollrww rv \ e *
but ten minutes to answer you—" relations " * Nothing with the to do parties with it opposite / said the . They little took figure , thirty 'We years have no to prepare as Understand many a minutes measure me , we to , while are settle pled we the , ged on whole to our action side constitution , onl ! ten y allowed minutes of Eng ourselves pled land ged . Remember November I say—and , ! eighteen no Remember Conservative sixtv — -seven six Ministry . ' o " ' clock and yet the , abandoned a snectre . m ., the vanished its sixth pled . ge of .
have " alread now y elapsed my Lord . , " What the King can we continued do ?" , " Seven minutes the " order Do , your Sire Majesty , and I'll , " cut said all the the Premier prisoners , " Why throats , but in half ive the me time . " but " No it would , no , Abon not do , " . I lied should the King like , it " extremely Thank you , but very I cannot much , us against afford . What it our . Wh are 150 y , the 000 these . reports The forei chances from gn cowards Magdala are clearl have . y Have 100 got to the 1 , 500 1 English against men workmen "No Sire yet . altered Had there all our been firearms fewer i " missionaries and more blacksmiths among them the conversions would have been mnrp niimprnns . Onlv n fnwr tliniicriitrl cf-n-nric r * f oi-me Itoi-o
yet " been Ah me comp , " said leted his . " Majesty , "We cannot stand to win on effect such I give odds be up prepared — all so the telegrap prisoners directl h at y once the . And clerks to Pal let l come a Mall despatch . to Should our to War the say Office same that this morning . " council So .. say , turned ing , the his warlike face to but the prudent wall , and Monarch slept . adjourned this ment In four may or expect five weeks to receive ' time therefore the official . Her despatch Majesty ann ' s Govern ouncing
the the telegram surrender to the the same prisoners effect , and , now about on its three way week to this s after country that via Constantinople and Athens .
In The Smoking-Room.
IN THE SMOKING-ROOM .
After Dinner. Dawdle And Dangle Over The...
After dinner . Dawdle and Dangle over their coffee and cigars . Dangle Dawdle . . — — One Anything of Lewis in the ' s articles Pall Mall upon the -nig German ht ? drama . strance You should " in Bel read gravia it . ? Apropos , have you seen the " Remon-Dawdle . —I glanced ! at uite it—awfully leaves the weak , isn ' t it 01 1
White Dangle ' s identity . —Awfully unexplained C ^ , and slangs away question at the Pall isabmgton Mall . or It ' s rather supposed his shade to be . written Well , by if he Captain did write Shandon it , it would —you seem know that — awfull the air of sill Hades . But doesn I think ' t agree the writer with made the poor a mistake old fellow he —it ' s Dawdle y y . —Or she ! ; with Dangle an appropriate . — As you address say , or — she Billingsgate , should have . Bel dated gravia the letter not in very it . good this month—there ' s too much about Miss Braddon when Dawdle writers . — have Ah ! a that row ' s , they the worst will bring of those the literary poor , unoffending
quarrelsmatters public into \ Its the bad dispute ; as h to if have anyone to cared read their a hang books about without such being Dangle called . — upon Just to so enoug . listen Been to to their any grievances of the theatre . s latel , y 1 house Ellen Dawdle , Terry but . ' — s awfully I very looked nice sill in thoug at pieces the h , Queen , and ' s horribl the farce other y , by bad nig that ht scenery . Pretty " dis- . tinguished the-bdid amateur see , " what Felix the Dale Dail , Esq News ., is said smile about -at-able this . same By-Felix Dangle ye Dale , , . — Esq you Yes . ? ; that he is y a well-known and veteran official—in tnat fact , the critic took M . le Fils for M . le P & re . Do
moving you in Dangle Dawdle good mean in society good . . — ~ -A Yes s to society paper . be What guilty , that who a appeared funny of writes . B mistake for y-th in the e-b one ye Dail for , of who y a the News man is magazines the moving ? man under as a Mr the . title John of Hollingshead " Dramatic Critics , apropos Criticised , they , " say , e his that name the the " Canteen occasion " at of the Riviere Alhambra ' s benefit was —did thrown you go open ? to the public on Dawdle . —No . I ' m a married man . subject Dangle , how . — about I forgot politics that— ? pray pardon me . To change the Dawdleisraeli liob uoctorea
was funny , . wasn —D ' t it ? ana Lowe being together question Lowe Dangle ? , will . —Yes you . kindl By-the y tell -bye me , if wh it y is you not call an the impertinent latter Bob I say Dawdle , Beales . — seems Bad habit rather I suppose puzzled . about Most Fenianism fellows do , doesn it thoug ' h . fellow Dangle ! he . had —Awfull much y . better His hav popularity e stuck ' to s revising on the . wane He ' s harm poor - less Da wdle , that . — ' Yes s more , what than a bore that say fellow for Garibaldi ' s become . . Well I ! have and don ' t some both know ? of what them they want 'll do an , you United see some Italy of . them You want see they the Pope can ' t ' Da Da wdle ngle . . — — Why Why not not ? ? Why , how could they ? kicking Dangle out . — Victor How could Emanuel they , ? By putting making the the Pop country e on one the , throne in his stead ! haw Dawdle k . ! . —By jingo , that ' s a notion worthy of the Toma-
Butcher The 'S Most . Unpopular Meet Of ...
Butcher The ' s most . Unpopular Meet of the Season . —The
St New . Martin Book S-Le-G Op Rand Trav...
St New . Martin Book s-le-G op rand Travels to St . , Paul by Anthony 's . Trollope . —From
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Nov. 9, 1867, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_09111867/page/10/
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