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    • THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES.
    • HARD TIMES.
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      June 25,1870.3 The Tqm Ah A Wk. 253

      June 25 , 1870 . 3 THE TQM AH A WK . 253

      The Roundabout Rambles.

      THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES .

      Oxford, June 2,2nd, 1870. The Chief At O...

      Oxford , June 2 , 2 nd , 1870 . The Chief at Oxford . have I confess We made are th having the at I acquaintance feel a very a little joll sh y of time several of the of Chief it reall indeed y and nice if up young I here could fellows , and onl I . get Spagmore to take him off y my hands , I , should be only too y thankful tempted a University ; I must but degree Spagmore not hope , and refuses for so any , till " satisfactory to this touch is " accomp him stroke without lished of business he or gets atin that direction . The dinner with the head of St . Barnabas was scarcely a success , as a great African traveller , a Dr . J affenheim rested for , of an Munich hotel bill , who he was had forgotten asked to meet to pay the at Cambridge Chief , was the artherefore week before no , one and to so was unable on to conversation be present . in There the Chiefs was , present language exercises , kept , , on and the up though irregular a running carry the verbs Regius fire , any of the Professor questions Chief in of , no mostl Persian way y taken responded , who from was , evening and the the thing Chief at made last began use of a to coarse fall a English little flat . oath Later , which in the he learned pressed , fro sang m a a stoker hodribad ' at , or Alexandria comic dirge , and , eventuall a musical y , on morgeati being peculiar to SouthCentral Africa . - He accompanied himself to this constructed on the boolah of a human , or one ^ ltringed inea clothes war fiddle , an and instrument the dried entrail of a bison . On this sp he p , layed with a peg sort , of spring fork , producing a noise somewhat resembling the grunt of several his p of igs the fork —b shrill , ut in much p whistling iercing louder treble of . a His notes hig voice h , pressure the kept effect engine time being to on the precisel the beating eve y that of of an accident- —but also much louder . The song , a ballad of his own It consists composition of one , was verse entitled which Yalaashiah accuratel gug translated , or The Friends runs as J follows : — , , y , Hooki had a dear / friend of his big heart ! What Hooki is ' s friend friendly was feeling called , O Jaggery you , to illish rum y ? ! Jaggery Woe to illishy Jaggeryillish had rum y ! in ! his pocket ! Hooki put much war paint on his nose ! Hooki put much war paint on his eyelids ! And when Jaggeryillishy said his prayers , With He cut chopper him into ! little tit bits , — With Wi O rum th s sharp ha !! r p ! and chopper reeking ! ! chopper ! ! regarded This was as not a musical at all and bad literary the first novelty time , and , but went the point very fairl the y , each song time is , that louder it is to than be repeated before . The over Chief and over kept and this over up again for at , 1 least two hours and a half , when I , beginning to think that it mi no g avail ht possibl . The y soon Chief bore kept the it comp up until any , some tried to ices stop were it , but handed with leapt round one , he over , w suddenl hen the , seeing piano y flun , old g an h i Miss s took instrumen Flopp it from ins t her at the t . he I Re , e o f gi n course ' us s sis profe ter , , ( for s with sor , the regre t to as state an E I ha stern ve b com ecome limen an accom and I h ished ave b liar ) since explained told by Professor , Bogley , who d p iscovered , the existence eqn of iodine in ginger that she beer went , that home the and old made lady was her will so pleased in the Chief with ' the s favour attention that ve as a success night . However for althou , I cannot the Chief hones behaved tly refer himself to the tolerabl evening well , I am ver ; y much afr aid his continual and unprovoked use of hea the d oath of St taught . Barnabas him b with y the stoker idea at that Al he exan leans dria , has Broad imbued Church the views . There may , therefore , be some obstacle to his getting admitted to the College , even if he is up to the test examination . best Spagmore thing says will be that to if start " they a won Hall ' t of have our him own at . and any make price , " the that Chief the him tutor appointed j and there Public is something Lecturer in on it the , for condition we might of endeavour Central Africa to get ,

      this idea , of is course to introduce , in connection in it a lot with of earl comic y Pagan history a . Spagmore and ' s a humorous travestie of his ownto which songs he , accompanies panorama , himit self would on the go p immensel iano , called y with " Up the and , undergraduates Down the Nile- , o and / " He I daresay thinks he is right , but I am afraid the authorities would scarcely like out it , especi in war ally -aint as in from one head part to of foot the lecture and kill the an Chief ox with is a to kick com in e p , for the neck the sake . Of of course local he c will overing wear , but his Master it seems ' s gown to me all that the a time too popular element will be thus introduced into the public Univerfessors sity strength lectures . and to readers follow , and so in , who meet the have same with neither line some . opposition the genius from nor the other physical pro-******** actuall While y got I up have our been " Hall jotting , " and we all are this going down to have Spagmore a boat has on just the river number ! He nine says as we he can has make made up the an H ei all ght out cap . itally He is , as full we of it , and we start in , the Bumping races to-morrow night . Our bottle colours of are rum a couchant ground of reversed yellow , ( the and Chief pink insists spots , on and this on ) , and it a our motto isquando " Oesura elisis post sequitur quintum : ut semi Mentem pedem rar sa 6 cerdotu negligitur m incola , nisi jyt / iius " . at It is the a bottom little long of , it but , and Spagmo that is re just says as well there as is a starting fine sentiment up here to show them we know -what ive are about . I can ' t do more tocan day . than We are subjoin going our out ei to g - ht ni , g adding ht for a wei paddle ghts — and if we ages can where hire an I outrigger . The St . Jow ' s Eight . 1 . The head of St . Barnabas ( if we can get him to row ) . 2 . Lord Bolchester ( who we hear is coming up to Commemoration . ) 3 . Our Scout ( our best oar ) . 4 . Scout ' s boy . o 5 . . The Myself Porter . ( over eighty , but steered a barge in 1823 ) . aunt 7 . ) Herr . Tappenheim ( if we can get him . If not , possibly my Stroke . The Chief ( to row the Pokyar stroke with an oar thirty feet long ) . Cox . Spagmore . breakfast The races to-morroiv begin to , -morrow , and we all go into training at **?•»* over I open the this course to say . Herr we are Tappenheim on the eve has of going turned out for and a pull is delighted to try if we will pay him fourpence an hour up , but he says he has always been accustomed in Germany to row , with a paddle stroke - . " wheel . I have told him " he ? II soon get into the Chief ' s * * * *« * * * river The , and Chief nothing ' s oar can has arrived possibly , it pass reaches us . Spagmore nearly all has across taken the think 5 to 1 we on shall making , if the a bump head before of St . Barnabas the gut , and will I keep reall his y begin eyes in the boat and pull with the right end of his oar .

      [Continued By Our Special Correspondent....

      [ CONTINUED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT . ]

      Hard Times.

      HARD TIMES .

      Share Metropolitan Of The Sympathy Phila...

      share Metropolitan of the sympathy philan to thropis omnibus ts are conduc wont tors to offer as being the g , rea of tes all t paid persons . Omnibuses employed , in as London is known , the , are hardest on the -worked road , and from the seven worst in the morning until past midnight , and Sunday , instead of being have a holiday had , their is the grievances busiest of thrown days . into The the omnibus shade men by the , however Essex , day th carmen e morning Lon don It seems marke until that t Sunday , are these con night t men inua l never l y emp bring go loyed to vegetables , bed and at from all . up Mon Not to - unnaturally the poor fellows fall asleep at their posts—the tops enou of the h waggons that a they d are driving ersons — are and kn it ock follows ed down reasonabl and run over g in the streets goo by the many vege table carts which meander through the crowded thoroughfares of town , while their drivers , having

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), June 25, 1870, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25061870/page/11/