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    • ARMY RESERVE.
    • A PLACE TO SPEND A HAPPY DAY7
    • " TOMAHAWK" IN PARLIAMENT.
    • "SPES GREGIS CLINTON?
    • DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
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      June 26, 1869. 3 Thb Tom Aha Wk. 279

      June 26 , 1869 . 3 THB TOM AHA WK . 279

      Army Reserve.

      ARMY RESERVE .

      1. I Am: A Quiet, Peaceful Man : I I Tak...

      1 . I am : a quiet , peaceful man : i I take I ' m fat things , and easy forty as -three I can : : i \ What ' s this Reserve to me 1 2 . By Leave Ballot no you would and fill no the ranks ? No No option anything to escape decline but , —go with ? thank , s ? None safe except the 3 Volunteer ? But To which that I gives might greater aspire cause : for fear , The frying pan , or fire ? 4 . For To , if get in my time martial of war blade I vow ground , Between Let fall two on the stools parade why see ground me now ? 5-I ' m And middle must -aged I be , a in martyr fact a porpoise ? : I'll Appeal throw to myself Mag on na Habeas Chart a / Corpus , 6 . I ' m Go not leave a soldier me to , that ' trade s the truth ! : , my There If zeal ' s dormant were better energy paid in . youth , 7 . Go Of ! rouse foolscap the , tap youth e , or ! nor quills take ! such heed Is Of there pipe no -clay harvest , sown from in Drills your seed ?

      8 . What With threefold half an jumble I see of ! your Force To solve the problem eye why endorse That worn-out Rule of Three ? The Army proper has 9- its staff : Must Militia have , as a we second ' ve heard : did , I laugh ? The Volunteers a third I 10 . Reform Stands , abashed timid at by the all gate this : fuss , This Is watch regulation -dog of Cerberus the State ! 11 . A three-fold failure ! and a mark What Of scorn common to ev sense * ry dunce can drown ! the bark Of all those heads at once ? 12 . 0 Those happy doomed day ! when cocked Time hats has to brought feel Reform Made ' s one great beneath car of the Juggernaut wheel ! , 13-Try Of anything Ballot : , but let me not be that : plan 1 take I ' m fat things , and easy forty as -three I can . :

      A Place To Spend A Happy Day7

      A PLACE TO SPEND A HAPPY DAY 7

      Land The , With Treatment The Class Of O...

      land The , with treatment the class of O of riental amusements Grandees provided on their for visits them to , Eng has - announcement become one of , our which national we quote standard from jokes the columns ; but the of following a daily contemporary , is more than ordinarily absurd : — nesses " Metropolitan Hassan Pacha Railway , the son . — of On the Tuesday Viceroy last of their Egypt Hig , and hhis cousin , Prince Tussoun Pacha , son of the late Viceroy , respective Said Pacha suites , attended , made a by minute Colonel inspection Gamble of , the C . B Underground ., and their Railway from Westminster bridge to Moorgate street . " dragoman Colonel to Gamble the Egyptian , C . B ., Princes whom , we must presume be but a to sorry be p caterer laying for spending their Hi an ghness afternoon ' s amusement suggested if itself no more to him cheerful than project " a minute for vi inspection lle Gardens " of or the the Underground Welsh H Railway would . surel A visit have to been Rosher far - more pleasant and interesting . arp y

      " Tomahawk" In Parliament.

      " TOMAHAWK" IN PARLIAMENT .

      Last There Weekand Was As Nothing For Th...

      last There weekand was as nothing for the of Lords any Tomahawk consequence w in the so fri Commons htened , , g dare at the to angry within spirit a mile raised of Westminster by Mr . Bright . ' s N letter ext week , tha he t h will e did have n ' t recovered go from his terror , and ( N . B . ) his " Index Number . "

      "Spes Gregis Clinton?

      " SPES GREGIS CLINTON ?

      Asked " What A Lad Does Y Of Her The Wit...

      asked " What a lad does y of her the witty poor partner Duke of in the Newcastle cotillon live the other on now day ? . " " Why , Hope , to be sure , " was the answer .

      Double Acrostic.

      DOUBLE ACROSTIC .

      " To This We Have Come." When The Next S...

      " To this we have come . " When the next stage we reach in our success , And Too tired pause to awhile utter this Dame small Fortune word ' s in name full , to bless ; At what implies the whole the cheek we'll pull . Far Of our better leaves e ' en the than bitter this rind you . 'll find , What this is I must confess I don't know ; let some one guess . This How is I wonder worse and what worse are —sky ? blue , you When How I my curse head this I howling try to smother lover Oh Like my a shy ! heavens retiring , there plover ' s another , , . This We for will humbug keep j or and for not crime for folly ; Fools Reason forgive too , us for j being there is jolly rhyme . ,

      News From " The House."—Why Are Oxford M...

      News from " the House . "—Why are Oxford men warof riors Alma ? Because ( mater ) . they have all been concerned in the " battels " " John Bullism" ( according to Lord Granville ) . — ther Making particulars a mud pie appl and y to then Mr . Bri being ght forced . ) to eat it . { For fur ' To the Dramatic Critic of a certain Journal . — fault You by should Telegraph write and seriously only praise and not in Era with ( error Levi ) - . ty . You find

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), June 26, 1869, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_26061869/page/5/