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    • THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES.
    • A LUCKY IDEA.
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      April 16, 1870.3 The Tomaha Wk. 147

      April 16 , 1870 . 3 THE TOMAHA WK . 147

      The Roundabout Rambles.

      THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES .

      [Continued By Our Special Correspondent....

      [ continued by our special correspondent . ]

      Lugworth Hall, 10th April S 1870. It Is ...

      Lugworth Hall , 10 th April s 1870 . It is useless to disguise it—since I last wrote I have had a great deal of distressing anxiety on account of the Chief . I had once hopes that the wonderful influences of European manners detach him , arts from , and the sciences savage , would state ; tell but on I fear him my , and hopes in were time entirely groundless . He seems dead to the effects of civilization . where Of course some , for rap all id the act purposes of barbarism of a such Music as Hall breaking entertainment a dining- , room table to pieces with his left , leg , or swallowing a couple 1 of But living these fowls accomp whole lishments , would are be in of little requisition or no , use he in is reall invaluable y good . society . Indeed he is continually embarrassing me dreadfully , for party givi to ng " out obli that ge them he can with sing something , on being , " asked I never at any know evening what he may not do ! At my aunt ' s the other evening when asked to sing , he got into the grand piano , bringing the lid down , much to the astonishment of the lady who was going to accomhim pany to him come , with out a . startling I triedas crash I usuall , and y nothing doto laug would h the persuade matter off , and said he was shy , , or , perhaps a little , cold ; but he had , eventuall Feathers y two , to men be dragged servants out the by Vicar Lord and Bolchester myself , and Sir th Harry en he brought the , whole of the new , check action , out with , him . At unasked the Vicar ' interfere s too , on in the a part previous song , evening and when , he I would remonstrated , though , set up such , a frantic war whoop , that a Miss Betchley , who was just going softly through her line" Take Cynthia where the rose bud blushes " medical suddenly man stopped to be short this , morning and has hopelessl been pronounced y deaf . You by the cannot local think how very disagreeably the Chief behaved . Though I onion tried to which amuse I him always in the bring corner in my over pocket the for chess him - , board and g , ive and him an when , I see he is getting noisy , he would not be quiet . The party stood up for the song , and as far as I can give you the effect French on gentleman paper , it , ran who much was told as follows to listen , to to the it attentivel surprise y of as a a specimen of the thorough English School of Music : —

      Part Song . Voices . —Let Chlorin rove mid waving rushes . Heigh ho / Merry a day I The Chief . —IVhoooohoooohoooohooooo / VOICES . — Take Cynthia where The Chief . —Zgadsby juckihitiwzishy zwytikinkity whytizikiddillttopyshtisky—whoooowhooohoooowhooowhooo VOICES The Chief . . — Whoo / — ( stopped by a piece —the of rose onion bud . ) blushes / Voices . —Heigh ho / for Daddy Gray / Take her freetake her coy / Chief . tillity —Hig chichoppery h gittsby , fld coppery ddli whisky hitiliti tcllibi lilly gi by ggesb jiggil y hi wappety willy teppety hi . Voices . —Chloe seeks Chief . —Higiggerittwitteri bigigeree —( piece of onion ) . Voices whooohooow and Chief — herd Ensemble — whoohooott . — -Her / hoowowowoo —whooohooow — boy Shep . — Spagmore For myself , who I was own there I did not ( having like the left effect his troup of the e above at a Pawn ; but - p broker art songs ' s in a the rranged New Cut for a Chief said it and was four cap voices ital , and would that be a great of " wrinkle " for Cramer . wedding I have at sto L o ped rd Bolchester here , as we ' s . are I have soon been about up to half start the for night the me trying in the to coach most solemn the Chief ma into nner to keep thing quiet , and unless he has pr give omised him he a si wears gnal by evening throwing dress a fowl always at his . The head peop . I ought le here to do tell not you know that it takes ; but he never . I , am as far doing as I ever can ything see , goes I can to to bed get , and rid so of neve him r having but at answered present nothing heaps of has advertisements come of my , and advertisement put one in myself , and ; several answers I have received to it I hope to speak of in my

      next letter . This one I must despatch in a moment or two , as I have to give the Chief his last instructions previous to our taking a run with the hounds to-morrow morning . We are going to the meet very early , and I begin to hope that at last the Chief will appear to advantage , even among English gentlemen . Hunting is , he assures me , his strong point . In Pokzar he was famed in his " county , " where they are continually hunting the rhinoceros . I have explained to him that the fox is scarcely as formidable a brute ; but he seems to imply that that need not spoil his sport . I have got him a proper suit of " pink " tops and everything , and they are all put out on his bed ready . I think I will just look in . at him before 1 retire . Have just looked in . The Chief has already got on his p boots . m . and is curled up on his knees in the fender . He appears to be , spending the night in prayer ; at least , when I stirred him up this is all I could get from him . It seems hunting in Pokzar is a religious business , and that at Lugworth here he misses his god a good deal ; but I have asked him whether he thinks he could get on with a ninepin . He says he could very well with one if it were the King , and so I'm going to walk over to the village inn and borrow it for the evening . 12 . 45 £ . w . Have got " the god , " and have told the manservant ^ to put him at the door with the Chiefs hot water in the morning . Next morning . Rather late . Am hurrying down for fear the Chief will be ready before me . Our hunters were to be round early . I hear a good deal of shouting in front of the house . I am anxious . I feared so—it is , of course , the Chief , surrounded by a crowd of stable boys and farm labourers . He has on the red coat { that is something ) , but in all other respects he is got up for a campaign . From head to foot he is reeking with war paint , and is covered with beads and feathers , and is armed with a tremendous sort of double-edged tomahawk , which I know is thrown in a circle , like the boomerang , but with this advantage , has that stuck it co 7 nes his back spurs to into somebod his y horse else / which He rec he ognises is riding me , bare and - backed , having torn everything off it , except the snaffle . # « ¦ ¦ « ¦ * * * *

      Tremendous plunging all over the geranium beds , and several backings into the fernery in the drawing-room window ! Still the Chief holds on . ******** A terrific war-whoop and he is off , evidently intending to mee clear t ? the park gates . 1 must follow ! What will happen at the ***** * * # and Ou said t of a breath few hurried and half words -ridden to Lord to pieces Bolchester / have got about there a friend first , of mine , who is eccentric but a capital seat . * * * * * * * * Clatter , dust , and an uproar approaching at railway speed . The Chief is in our midst with two five-bar gates and the turnpike man strung to his back as trophies . I am again trying to laugh it off—but more in my next .

      A Lucky Idea.

      A LUCKY IDEA .

      We Are Pretty Well Accustomed By This Ti...

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 16, 1870, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_16041870/page/5/