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    134 THE TOM AH A WK. [March 27, 1869.

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    S2AJVZAS JPOR STONES: Being a Collection...

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    Peasant Bob. 1. When every one is singin...

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    TRICKS OF THE TRADE.

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    for In the consequence construction of o...

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    134 The Tom Ah A Wk. [March 27, 1869.

    134 THE TOM AH A WK . [ March 27 , 1869 .

    S2ajvzas Jpor Stones: Being A Collection...

    S 2 AJVZAS JPOR STONES : Being a Collection of POPULAR TRAGIC SONGS .

    Peasant Bob. 1. When Every One Is Singin...

    Peasant Bob . 1 . When every one is singing songs Let Of Bob sorrow as , w ell as wiser , and sin folks , A word , or two get in . ,

    Men Men say sav on on poor noor and and need needv y souls souls M Big cities but set here their mid curse lanes ; and fields ay Some , things perhaps are worse 1 , 2 . Two pretty words , these , " lanes and fields , "

    And To To picture you vmi who who meadows live live in in , town towns babbling s ,. streams , Who Green think woodlands that all ' s , br so e ezy no down cent , , So happy ! Ah , you ' re wrong!—But Then come finish , I'll give th your e version . first , up song

    Welldoubtlesssuch 3- as me like To , fancy with , my cot , — you My bit of garden to my gate , — Contented with my lot , While The cutting boughs above prigs of my holl door y , from

    And Who smiling play about at my the little floor ones . When sundown comes 4- , you like to think , And I h join eed them their mer at a hearty call , meal , You Right hear h me earty tell , — the lots well for all known . tale , But At which can they fill the never picture tire ; in

    " Beside you the cottage fire . " , You paint me looking 5- full of pride On Jim , my boy , brave chap ; My Smart Nelly fellows , my own set girl their , at whom MNanwhispering her cap ; ' rs

    y Beside cy her , mother ' s knee , pray And Who Bill ' s , stayed and M awake eg , —and for little me . Tim 6 . With time you note my locks turn white . In M honest y children England cheer here my , heart you boast , ,

    On I S p abbaths lay a noble at the part Village I Church That You mark will me moisten there , and heads say will sink When eyes death calls me , away ! So No much village for fiction cot have , now I , . for truth ;—But huddled in one room like brutes

    No W fire ife , to children cheer the , —there naked we hearth lie ! , No light— " Can such things be , V I tel Are l you better that housed the parson than ' s we dogs t

    8 . We Down ' re only tro " dden clods to /' - the —ay earth , that ' s the word , We ' re paupers , tillers of the soil , Live Marked stock , upon branded the from land , our and birth passed — Mer From e things Mi hand that to hand eat an for d d gold rink — —not men

    ¦» , *•*¦ But ^** V * things & — V **** priced W VtVb CAAAVAk , boug Vr »* ht **** , and , ** . V sold •» >» a . A ! ^ A * y , 9 . " Whose Why fault in a kennel V Ah ! Whose ent , ? Heav ' n knows , not I We It live like s but brut thre es e ! T cen he t S . quire wont build , A And nd pay so so we we struggle struggle , per starve starve , a and nd try trv

    To brave it out . , But sin , W W hen aits co , ur knocks age , hope —then , and enters shame , in . have fled , 10 . So He Jim ' s , got my his boy seven , that years once— ; Well there , And A < N : lod elly , my shed own his girl tears , my —

    pet—We ^^ t ^ m ^» + M . never WJLW *»* may AAAUJT talk H ^ gilWVh of her ^ JLXAtJ , she ^ m fc ^ . CA ' s >* * gone J ! Be neath he lp her een ! W with ould little I kn Tim ew That she were gr sleep , ing too ] , 11 . The rest , they grow ; but when I needs

    And Mu wish st draw them my earth dying 's b est rea blessing th , , I I know Can onl not y at wish whose them door —death to lay ! The The health crime , the —for strength ' tis to , rob the , life , the soul , Of poor old peasant Bob !

    Tricks Of The Trade.

    TRICKS OF THE TRADE .

    For In The Consequence Construction Of O...

    for In the consequence construction of of the a roadway successful across manner the Thames in which Embank the Bill - through ment from Parliament Wellington , and Street the to princi Parliament ple which Street was was at the carried time laid mount down to all that consideration the convenience of the of the so-called public " should Metropolitan stand para Im- - provements , " we understand that certain eminent firms of prejudice contractors , have , encourage set on foot d by the their following recent schemes victory , over the bills popular for which are now in course of preparationand ¦ will 4 hdMB be + im hurried

    through IT MAW ** « i * JW the ^* * 4 > House ^ W *** of ^*^^ Commons V * AWW ^^* fc * with ** ? # " •«¦ % all « HP *^^ convenient ** 5 , •«***»•• WW speed * WHwm : — — mvw Scheme part i . — of To Piccadill build y a bounded row of shops by the on Green the south Park side . of that Scheme between 2 . —To Rotten portion Row off on thirty one acres side , and of Hyde the Serpentine Park situated and villa Kensington residences Gardens . on the other , for the erection of Scheme is requisite 3 . —The present for the width traffic of which Pall Mall frequents being it greater to acquire than

    half AS X VVl the UiWiliW street for blAW its entire CAJLJ . AW VF ** length *«^ A * A * ^<* for ^ H V * W the ** fct * *** erection , WV ' T . of ****• a deprived second row of of their houses frontage . The clubs on the and street public , to be buildings approached thus by of the illuminated new buildings subways . descending beneath the cellarage Scheme 4 . —To convert Trafalgar Square into a dead meat market .

    body Our of great men , and contractors deserve are to be certainly better appreciated a verv public than -spirited they just that now such are schemes . Very as likel these y are there ori will inated be peop solel le with who a will view hint to filling the pockets of these much g abused capitalists y ; such is public ingratitude .

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 27, 1869, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_27031869/page/2/