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65 * THE TOM AH A WK. {February 13, 1869...
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STANZAS FOR STONES: Being a Collection o...
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Poor Tommy's Home ! 1. My The home thing...
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OUR WEEKLY JPROPHET. (Obtained at a Grea...
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there February will be 15 a th continued...
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Vague but. Complimentary.—Mr. Chatterton...
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65 * The Tom Ah A Wk. {February 13, 1869...
65 * THE TOM AH A WK . { February 13 , 1869 .
Stanzas For Stones: Being A Collection O...
STANZAS FOR STONES : Being a Collection of POPULAR TRAGIC SONGS .
Poor Tommy's Home ! 1. My The Home Thing...
Poor Tommy ' s Home ! 1 . My The home thing ! Do I call I like home it , and ? I love shoul it d , you rather ask think ? not . Here To- , day let ' s this talk old plain wor d a lish new meaning let ' s tear has off the got . mask . 2 &
You Rig doubt ht up me to the % Then top , till up you with _ .. reach you quick the third , stair floor by . stair , Come You pause , that on the ' threshold t stifle you ? — Let merel ' s open y foul the air door ! . / - » You'd rather I didn ' t ? Well , p ' raps you are right ; And ft Some uuiut - _ _ homes nuiiito of which may iiiaji « _ . be u ^ often _ queer < - |^ ucci sort _ > _ 7 _ i . of ui t b p jjiav laces , the c 3 within niiiuii m « , j
We things ^ can talk , about calmly we . can Suppose ' ear I begin . * sig 1 , 4-A Foul room , filthy ; let ' , neg handsome lected for , many —say , a twelve year ! feet by ten ; Look You ' re , you wrong would —human think beings these were are huddled beasts in in their here . den !
Let T . A a ) ' s father count , he them _ 1 ' s drunk . A mother in the 1 - corner V and bab 11 —that y just ' s three born 1 _ . ; Six children heav ' , that No ' s , nine not — yet there , —they were ' re in eight prison , two , yo are u see gone ! — 6 . I ' m the twelfth of the lot , and it ' s often I think , And i & UU When r *** my XLXJT « d b father ACbfcllVX hunger ett _ . been m comes ^/ VlllViJ hangs out reeling AWWlXXXj _ over of _*¦ the . us ^ in XXXj like , world madden J . A & UViVi 4 a a black ^ after ^<< J * 'd V * by *~ pall all J •* « drink VA ! , XXXXI . VJ ,
We * 'er , 7-Ther The e we darkness lie in o around ne room , hungry , the floor , thirsty for our , and bed cold I , The A terrible story ' s a on terrible e—and on the e when world it shakes ' s told— its head . 8 . _» w « m a _ a _ - ¦ * r <¦ 41
This That dea ^ , spite r , beautiful such a world home ^ , , can pious live — on so in good its , ease ; That And w doesn ould do ' such Well fine , p ' wonderful r ' aps such things as r ae , ' if ha it could to p — lease ! 9-But Where still , whil arent e in s a Engla nd children nd one home can like be found brutes The For talk the of p tre her e , howe progress ' er green is just , has grow so a much wor up m sound at its , roots . , -
10 . When As parson you brag s have , then said , to to me e , and day say after , " Tommy day , , my boy , " " Ah I say J Heaven s , " Go yourself ' s the home ; / of won us 't all stand —there in your ' s our way joy ! ! " " 11 . J Don ^ Ult And 't b speak £ J £ SV nt > an , about , th U 1 V e 11 n , , this to kU me HIV ) , of V / X a CV b k / e VUUbltUJL autiful p £ / AC la * c \« W e , , rd
The sound ca of it brings " up our the own blood dear to special my face ! ;" At thought of it all my dark feelings are stirred 1 12 . I hate it ! You stare at me ; say that it ' s odd ! Meet Well evil , do in so shoals ;—throug but hout for the life wide without world God you may roam—Take England , and ; find it in poor Tommy ' s , home /
Our Weekly Jprophet. (Obtained At A Grea...
OUR WEEKLY JPROPHET . ( Obtained at a Great Outlay . )
There February Will Be 15 A Th Continued...
there February will be 15 a th continued . —Owing fall to the of Valent fourteenth ines during falling o the n a whole Sunday of , the ballast day . . An occasional fall among the postmen under stress of The Gaiety Theatre , not content with distributing fans to the ladies with an , will appropriate present every Valentine member . of its audience on this evening The same mark of deference to the saint will be bestowed by ¦ the VUW ^^¦^ presiding ^ Jl . \« i 31 This _ UlUg — - ¦ ~ m ¦ will Judge J *** * * *** 4 £ > be * ** ' V on looked / 1 J . 4 every V ^ I'ViJ 4 ' special & £ J \* , \^ L € Wilde * V A , 1 ¦» . juryman J U . XJTX 1 . XC 4 . XZ . in XIX mthe CXXV * XyiVViVU Divorce
Court . on as a _ proceeding ^ . which February will cause 16 th . — such A cartoon a commotion will appear not a hundred in the Tomahawk miles from , Windsor the park- , keepers as to give . serious apprehensions as to the safety of his The connection Grand Falconer with any w Hawks ill write , Tommy a letter , to or otherwise the Times . denying the A stage lady of but rank on will reperusal make strenuous of the Lord endeavours Chamberlain to appear ! ' s " Re on
monstranc to __ bllW . _ . ___¦ the wTba conclusion ^ V e ; y on k / UV the _ VU i _ that JLU Scantiness / -1 | J she \« i . UaUI _ r ____ can . WX show of _ bllW _• Theatrical nr ** much _ XJVi _ . » U _ more \^ 1 UUlAiUU Costume _ r ~« in __* a private Aaiil , ' ' _ comes box - _ L * . V _ . — than The in Lord front Chamb of the erlain footlig will hts . forward another Circular to the effect that all statues , or representation - s of statues in any theatres with the within robes which his jurisdiction strict propriety , are to be demands painted . black or covered which U 11 ____ Mr LU 1 A . he XX George V _ * will VVXXJL __ n Xl Vining < ever » V VX speak i _ 7 £ /\ will _» ClX __ to . rep V once / ilVU ly of in most a himself UAXliO letter __ ^ lli . of __> half * __ a colnmn _» , in ¦_
no This gevining prophecy what appears may come us out as of the Princess improbable _ ' s Theatre , but there . is Ladies February will get lyth bitten . —Velocip by the edes mania will , crop and up horses in Rotten will be Row at a . their discount and several wheels . Veloci well . -known pede races spiders will will be be tried caug at ht Alexandra tampering Park with ; this Mr , the . Charles latest translation Reade will from be the the first French to . enter Hyde Park on February iS iuwci th— A gentleman \ ikxvixx will nui actually / travelfrom St
•_~ J . i * \* r wiA ^ ^ ^ * r jr * Jk . nr _ . . _ . g ^_ . > x-.- _ i . ¦ ! « o , V Vuaiiji _ kiavvv « M , , iiui ^ - i vj k . . politan J ohn ' s Wood Railway vzd in Baker twenty street minute , to s , Paddington nearly as fast , by as the the Metro same - distance A Hansom by fou cabman r-wheeler has . backed himself to drive his vehicle twice doin The g over it Hansom by und same erground cabman ground . will there win . back while a friend is be be February asked asked out out 19 to to th the the . —The firs first t Lord earl earlv Cha ball ball mb o of f erlain the the ' s seaso season representative na a skirmisher skirmisher will y ,
thrown He will out be before much the scandalised army of dancers by the commences undress of the its , operations ladies , and . will The retire Lord behind Chamberlain a screen ' s till representative the party is will over . remonstrate with the propri lady ety of the hous waltz e , to which disp the lay lady of shoulders will reply , , and as any the othe im r - lady Feb would ruary — 2 keep . 0 th . — away Temp — le or Bar words will to be that heard effect to . crack its aides . with It -K . w will vr xxx be uw discover uigvw numb vj . ed wu that ixxc of the c an * xx individual lAiwivAUUMi Tomahawk . had aac »\ a just j ui-9 V gone i ^ vnixw through i . xxx \_ r ** g ix
too much an open for the old er thing . —a passing joke was the The Right under Hono the urable title J of ohn Baron Brig Brillantine ht . M . P ., will of be raised to . tion Mr . . peerage Bri On ght consideration will retire to , Windsor and out of Forest respect to to consider a Brummagem superior the ques will - , he Mr will . Bright accept will the grow peerage a moustache . and cut Beales on the first opportunity There will . be a total eclipse of the , at dob the market
attract the 1 * Februa X o J . AV ccasion * U more »» ry 21 of * T well _ W f » ^ Mr T » ** - - The * . dr Buckstone * * ' ** ^ essed ¦* WV ¦ Sunday « * 1 AL _ women OW VJX ( pereYs performance % UXX than \ ^ son OUU return _ ever lilV at to . the The . St m Hay JLX . 4 XJT Alban stage . J Bishop . X 1 CVX . ' will b on SJXM of London will send round a circular almost in the same terms as l that edgment of the Lo The rd Ritualists Chamberlain will , but pay with no attention less chance whatever of acknow to it . -
Vague But. Complimentary.—Mr. Chatterton...
Vague but . Complimentary . —Mr . Chatterton has Jiad such a long run with his Christmas piece that he may well call it quested a " pa to nt laugh -o ' -mine long . " and N . B heartily . —The . reader is respectfully re-
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 13, 1869, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_13021869/page/2/
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