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Tomahawk (1867-1870), 20th March 1869, Edition 1 of 1, Page 130, A NURSERY RHYME WITH GOOD REASON!

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    • A NURSERY RHYME WITH GOOD REASON!
    • THE KALEIDOSCOPE REFLECTIONS.
    • FIVE INTO FOUR?
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      The Case Of Saurin Versus Starr, Like Ot...

      himself and family into a house . But he also finds it imperative now spurts upon were him in his to bachelor work regularl ' s days y sufficient , where perhaps to keep up occasional his connections . He has got an important affair coming on , a negotiation if he is a commercial man , which requires all his personal on attention which , depends an interview a year if ' he s happ is in iness the . literary Bang ! or in artistic comes a world sum- , mons on a special jury , and the juror-elect wishes he hacj been born in some far off country not so free , and a little easier . a service Really , our to multitudes clever friend of , the martyrs Daily to Te this legraph blessed , would institution be doing if it would open its columns to correspondents on the grievance of special juries the next time there is lull enough sufficient to make it absolutely necessary to fill up with the effervescence of literary outsiders . ! We might then get some knowledge of their constitution and i composition Take a note , with of this some D suggestions . Tan for love their me . better correction . , , you Tomahawk .

      130 The Tomahawk, {March 20, 1869.

      130 THE TOMAHAWK , { March 20 , 1869 .

      A Nursery Rhyme With Good Reason!

      A NURSERY RHYME WITH GOOD REASON !

      Sing A Song Of Season, Pockets Full Of N...

      Sing a song of Season , Pockets full of naught , Four-and-twenty prince-lings Don't make up a Court . When the season's opened , They'll represent the Crown ;—Isn ' t that a shabby dish To set before the town ? The Queen is absent—somewhere Saving up her money , The Prince is in a Nile boat—The Prince , he is so funny . So there ' s left but Christian To play the King at shows , And if he does , a blackbird , We trust , will have his nose !

      The Kaleidoscope Reflections.

      THE KALEIDOSCOPE REFLECTIONS .

      On Some "Social Glories" Of England. Fol...

      ON SOME "SOCIAL GLORIES" OF ENGLAND . Folkestone . Folkestone Should and you its ever environs be disposed I would to strong write l a y advise hand-book you not to to include the Martello Tower , . I wanted , as you know , to impress this Frenchman . Have you ever seen a Martello Tower ? If you have you can appreciate the force of my obp serving luck Ang , * ' Ce laise sont avaient ces grands effrayer fortifications votre Napoleon qui . avec " Fortunatel l ' esprit de y , I don ' t think Mons . Pol took in the idea completely , and so I laug camera hed obscura the thing . Of off , course and hinted this is broadl not the y that lace it was to a make sort of a note of itbut our land defences must be in a p shocking state . I am sure , 100000 men could be landed in Folkestone harbour without near the any railway trouble , station . However , by a back , I got street him , where safely we to our could hotel not , see the coast . Portsmouth is the place to strike a foreigner . I'll get him down there somehow . He shall return vid Southampton and Havre . Folkestone 8 . 45 . m . , p We have dined . Potage , •' mocque tourte ; " poisson , "le had cod ; a " rhubarb rStiy " bo pie ile-beef that ; " had entr waited ee " porksosage its opportunity . " With for this some we , c weeks hesterr { e Mons ( also . / W 4 < excellent pronounced " ) , pale this ale " excellent , and a " ) quart . Then bottle we had of " Murgan and Kenicher ' s old brown sherry , 1 855 , 8 s ., " which Mons . Pol drank in a tumbler and eulogised as tresjine . " Nos dinners Atiglaises sont bien homely , " I throw in . honete "None viande of your , et sauces plenty , you of it kno . " T w his ; bee time f pur my et French simple takes ; bon , and draws out a very satisfactory rejoinder . " Votre diner dtait exquis ; et le palale avait un bouquet tres de ' licat . " I tumblers fancy this . must However be the the result impress of i Mu on rga has been and Kenicher favourable in , ,

      On Some "Social Glories" Of England. Fol...

      thoug in Eng h land why a on hopeless earth is impossibility a plain dinner ? , H at ere a is reasonable the diner exquis figure , as is peculiar it appears 1 to in Eng a singularl lish hotel y running dinner bills hand , — and a sort seems of hand to hurry that and across wanted the ground to get over as if the it were matter horribl as quickl y ashamed y as possible of the prices : — , THE INTER-COLONIAL AND CALAIS IMPERIAL HOTEL . Folkestone . Dr . . 2 2 Entrees Dinners , , 25 7 s . . 6 6 d d . . . . . . .. . 050 o 15 o 1 Sherry ( JCenicher , ' 55 ) . . . 080 Ale . . . . .. 016 Attendance . . . . 020 £ 1 11 6

      It will be useless to ask a perfect stranger to pay half of this . However , he seems satisfied , and that ' s something . I had better suggest that it is time to be en roicte . I thought so . I was quite right about Kenicher in tumblers . He wants to go to the opera at Folkestone . I explain that there is no season in February , and that I doubt very much whether there is a theatre in the place . He is very disappointed , and refers to the time table . He wants to know if there is not a theatre at finger Westernhanger . I admit and there H may ythe , be and a theatre goes down at i ( the Ash line -for" with but his express great doubts as to its being open . " Tonbrigge ? No . I " ' m Red quite eel ? sure v No there , I ' don s nothing ' t think going so . - " on Tenez there , Mer . I stom tell him ? " he No 'd , better give up the idea this evening , especially as we don ' t get to London before 11 . 59 . The waiter here joins us , winks at me There familiarl ' s y very , and few says of , ** 'em They catches ain't accustomed the 8 . 52 . " to Mons our . ale Pol , sir is . singing something in a great many verses with a chorus about little " Plaquette French , Plaqu yell and ette , a P j laquet ump . -te We " which shall is have accompanied a scene . by Ah a here's the 8 . 52 ! " Venons ; il n y a pas de temps . " Thank , , goodness , he understands , at least , I think so . " Sapristi ! kes alors -ton en ! route Plaquette ! Monsieur , Plaquette , je ne , vous Plaquet quitte -te plus I Voyons ! Adieu , Gar Fol - - teekets ? Eh bien , houp ! la—en route I " And we are off . In for five hours of an English third-class train ! I do hope Kenicher will last him at least as far as Croydon !

      Five Into Four?

      FIVE INTO FOUR ?

      We Are Glad To See That The Venerable Bu...

      We are glad to see that the venerable but rascally hot-house system of education , as established at our large public schools , prominent has once more notice been and dragged is threatened , as it with were the , by lash the . forelock We are into not referring to the , quality of the intellectual training now considered essential to the proper formation of the English gentleman , but to the quantity .- It maybe the wisest thing in the world to leave a youth stranded , at the age of nineteen , on some classic shore , where he is surrounded by all the elegances of It m anti a qui be mos , but t conducive is sadly t in o his want future of a use Johnson fulness s in socie ictionary tto fill his y head with the configuration of the ancient Peloponnesus y and take care that he knows nothing about the relative position h of eat modern hen Greek European States be the . Immoral finest material in verse on wh and ich to rear the superstruc prose may ture of his very developed education ; but these call at are tenti ques on to tions is t h o e be miserable agitated " elsewhere cram " process . What wh we ich wish is no to w generally accepted as education wherever a sixth form can be got together . All sorts of bribes , in the shape of prizes , are held stinct out s of appealing human na t by ure , to way induce , to unhappy some of the boys least of from noble four in- - teen to eighteen years of age to put a working power on their brains It will never at , p b h e known ically , th how ey are total bri ly h incap t futures able of have supporting alread . been sacrificed to this outrageous many disregard g of the most obvious y mischief of truths now j but actually something in progress may be , ascertained and the possible in regar harvest d to the of disaster in the future . It is no exaggeration to say that there

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 20, 1869, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_20031869/page/12/