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    • STANZAS FOR STONES. BEING A COLLECTION OF POPULAR TRAGIC SONGS. {Second Series.)
    • WHO IS HIS BISHOP!
    • A CONSCIENTIOUS COMMISSION
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      July Io, 1669.] The Tom Ah A Wk. I 3 __

      July io , 1669 . ] THE TOM AH A WK . i 3 __

      Stanzas For Stones. Being A Collection Of Popular Tragic Songs. {Second Series.)

      STANZAS FOR STONES . BEING A COLLECTION OF POPULAR TRAGIC SONGS . { Second Series . )

      Stable Percy. 1. What You'll Am Get I Y ...

      Stable Percy . 1 . What You'll am get I ? o Well ur inf , at Tattersall ation : 's Some take me for a vulgar groom A A blackleg Pu shed out ! u , p welcher B a y Jov e e , ;— Sir some station , pearls , a , — fool ! Still Of go twenty to swine British : —I Earls close ! a line 2 . You Will stare never ? D lose ' you think colo , th ur e ? , blood that ' s blue The stuff that ' s flowing in my veins Trust Each me low gets frie dull nds , and iow a duller imslow ! tastes That nev , er know control , , , Will When thicken you ' ve most a jockey things ' s , blood soul , . as well , 3-I wasn My journey ' t old when t ' war I began the gutter ; For Wh I en was I q eat uite bread a sporting and butter man . I'd race the ostler for a sov , — And ( A handicap hen , when ) . settling He'd win day ; came round , I'd let that ostler in . 4-At Of Eton doing with things a grander I took way up ; And I often though mad I e never a book opened one , And dropped about enoug up , h each term—For I had several spills — - To To swamp pay my the schooling cheque the bills gov . ' nor drew 5-At H Oxford ad mor I e tried extended higher vie sta ws kes Sir , I put no end of money on , , , And And so got at twenty it , —from -three the , my Jews state , Sir , Financially was sound . I'd Scarce borrowed eighty —yes -thousand . But then pound I owed ! 6 . A Against trifle that another , you'll fi own gure , when . set Oh In yes all , my respects smash , de has rigneur been , . In Quite fact , the worthy flow ' of r has the proved bud . itself I brought Then dragged the house it through to ruin the first— mud . 7-Ashamed Was never am my I ? oh profession no , to blush . It isn't shame I feel to hear Let Some brokers fellow crawl ' s in where possession countesses , Have swept;—my household gods Be Give outraged ? ne the , soiled lates t knocked odds J down , —who cares ?

      8 . My They anc ' e v stors e always ? we kept ll , what their of saddle them ? . At None Crecy ventured , Flodden a , W skedaddle aterloo , . All sporting in their way—rode well—And The thafs genuine wh stuff Ithe , no last cross of them . Know all about y , a ' oss . , 9-And as no other place in life I mean To fill to I shall , when be able I ' m , home , And settle in the stable , If I I'd mi begun ht have down saved there , I think me , ! And Not g me broug , is what ht ruin ' — my blam Well e the ! , ' ' oss ,

      Who Is His Bishop!

      WHO IS HIS BISHOP !

      Ing The Money Subjoined -Clutching Adver...

      ing The money subjoined -clutching advertisement impudence , , which beats , for anything downrig ht unblush kind - few that mornings we ever re since member : — having seen , appeared in the Times sl THE prepared TRUSTEES to APPOINT of a SMALL a RECTOR COUNTRY . He must LIVING not be under are seventy year ; population -five , with unexceptionable 150 . Good house references and garden . Gross . income Church about , recentl ^ 300 y re a - stored ampton . street Appl , y Strand to Clericus , London , Messrs , W . . C . F . Smith and Co . ' s , 13 Southcomment Really , ! such Anal a ysed scandalous , it involves , yet — withal racy bid almost baffles 1 . —A age rare to opening negotiate for with veterans trustees , who who have have outlived also outlived the Gospel its 2 . —An precepts , implication . by the allusion to " unexceptionable refebery rences , t , h " that none the whole very business questionable is such vete a r dirty ans w bit ill a of ppl job y . - 3 . —An about admission in the market that the are 150 precious little value souls , wh thus en wei hawk hed ed against the interests of , the young gentleman , for whom the out " thing old " man is evidentl of nearl y y being eighty kept years open of . age How be equal can a to worn the - energy 150 souls and ? activity required , even to look after the care of 4 . —A hint that one ! if his Gross life income is to be £ 300 short a , it is ! at Good least house to be and a garden merry ! Poor old applicant ! year the Lord other somebod day in y debat , or n e obod , that y , no we bishop really could forget p his ossibl name y live , sa on id less " Clericus than ^ , " 5 and , 000 talk a year the . matter Why does over he ? When not get a poor the address old curate of conversation mi " ov ght er find seventy amp ! -five le material , " is supposed for a very to jump spirited at ^ and 300 , entertaining surely they

      A Conscientious Commission

      A CONSCIENTIOUS COMMISSION

      Day The Last Following :— Paragraph Appe...

      day The last following : — paragraph appeared in the papers on Wednescomp " The leted Royal a portion Commissioners of their investigations for the Pollution , met of Rivers to-day having at the *•' pose offices of , considering No . 2 Victoria their street report , . " Westminster , S . W ., for the purbe We , or , are if we not even aware knew who , these we probabl extremel y should y dirty shrink gentlemen from pub may - lishing dition of their the names Thames j but there if we must may be jud some ge fro thousands m the present of them conwho the Commissioners bathe daily between however Blackwall should and have Putney met for bridge the . That of considering their , report was , perhaps a rather unnecessary purpose proceeding , for the public are quite aware how well these gentlemen have succeeded in their mission . « 1 1 1 ¦ 1 1 1 1 11 1 i" ' ¦ ti ' ¦ " " -1 . i ¦! . n

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), July 10, 1869, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_10071869/page/5/