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    172 THE TOM AH A WK. [October 17, 1868.

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    O YES! O YES! O YES!

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    To our gri faithful phites, and Double w...

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    LAST WEEK'S NUMERICA L MYTHOLOGICAL CHAR...

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    7, 2, 6, 7, 4, 7, 12 , Athamas. 2 7 , , ...

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    [Private And Confidential.] Dashover, Be...

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    Dashover , Beds , 7 . 30 A . M ., Oct . 14 , 1868 . Dear Sir , — trouble I feel I that fear some I apology have is due iven to you . for Under the unnecessary may gyou the excitement—I am sure I deeply regret it—of an after-dinner gether conversation with the , I desi forwarded gn , for you a series last of nig pap ht ers a few I once materials contem , to- - lated writing AAbAlA & l I need scarcely \\ that ¦¦ I trust M- bT will fl kindly * lk & Jb

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    172 The Tom Ah A Wk. [October 17, 1868.

    172 THE TOM AH A WK . [ October 17 , 1868 .

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    To Our Gri Faithful Phites, And Double W...

    To our gri faithful phites , and Double well- Acrosticizers beloved Charaders , and all , Eni the gmaters other , M Lo erry go-Maniacs , greeting : We have received the following letter from our former contributor of groundless of food irritation for your towards mazy brains ourselves , which , and , spite equall of y its ground tone - less self-satisfaction , we publish : — TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOMAHAWK .

    your Sir contemptible , —With the true conduct magnanimity towards myself of geniu ; my s , I wrath forgive is you apget peased signed on , without b has y the inflicted just me . punishment on Your you pride . So which has you been actuall Fate humbled , y and thoug not . ht the It you was under could not - position tics out enoug , to though h , that its which readers you you nearl should knew in y every feeble my compel aversion miserable halting me to to rhymes that construct comic trick , paper and y doubl sort by now e of aid acros doles com of - - " Maunder on this ' s point Treasury and of I even Knowledge succeeded . " However in reconciling , I yielded myself to

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    me full , of and impertinent mocked me and with vul petty gar abuse taunts , , with and ill forwarded -disguised me satisfac letters - tion . You know the consequences . Hurling at you and that ribald crew a Parthian dart of fiery scorn and gleaming satire back in the on shape you , of and an left " acrostic you to shift for boys for yourself and girls . , " I turned my Awful and speedy was the punishment . I have often reflected on sitting the melanchol in the ante y - spectacle room of afforded the Bithynian by the tyrant figure , of waiting Hannibal his patron ' s pleasure to admit him to kiss his hand . I do not mean to vt aa * |~ Sirfor one momentwith avwab the mighty

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    meanwhile acrostic , about I have which great you p shall leasure hear in more presenting next week you . with In the the following Double Acrostic . By Darwin ' s theory the mother Develops further in the son : Thoug The h other one too never often will is be the one other . , The first and dearest word for men . The Landseer of the classic pen . The substance of a full Amen .

    To Our Gri Faithful Phites, And Double W...

    ( ( i a » ) Von Thank humbug you . — J ED It . ' TOM s plnln . from your writing you had to look this sentence out In your Dictionary ( 3 ) Ditto of Quotations to you ; but before you never you knew keep whether your promises it was . — " Ed parvls . TOM " or . " nmgnls J " -ED . Tom . self 14 ) he Very next well time j we you will \> o send out this for a to walk the in " Lunatic the country of Camberwell Green , " and look out for your

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    LAST WEEK'S NUMERICA L MYTHOLOGICAL CHARADE ,

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 17, 1868, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_17101868/page/12/