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ff THE-TOMAHAWK: ' A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF...
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No. 30.] LONDON, NOVEMBER 30, 1867. [Pri...
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GAGGING THE RECRUITERS : OR, WHITE LIES ...
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A LITERARy TABLE. {Dedicated to ///<? Di...
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Ff The-Tomahawk: ' A Saturday Journal Of...
ff THE-TOMAHAWK : ' A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . " "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "
No. 30.] London, November 30, 1867. [Pri...
No . 30 . ] LONDON , NOVEMBER 30 , 1867 . [ Price Twopence .
Gagging The Recruiters : Or, White Lies ...
GAGGING THE RECRUITERS : OR , WHITE LIES FOR THE RED AND THE GREEN !
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Scene Sergean . —The t Pitchit Parlour Strong of the and Marquis Corporal of Joseph Granby Long Public bow -house are . seen spelling over a recent Horse GuardsMemo 'randum . Sergeant ? l ? nr . T ? 4 WT Strong QTOriTSXrL { t' 7 log / iSl ) \ —I can ran ' ' t make mo !* - /* it it- out nut at o + all oil ! How XX ^ t
. ,, they can the go and ' thor tell ities the expect chap us s the to get real the state recruits of the they case want . { Reads , when ) . lodg " A s ing oldier , food from , and iiis clothing first joining , a weekl the y army sum quite receives at hi , besides s own dis his - deed posal of two y , - I and always -sixpence tell ' era or more they . " 'll get Half that - ^ a-cr much own a a week day , , inhalf even of then beer it apiece costs to me hook —take ' em ' em . all round—seven pints and a and Corporal we'd better Longbow go back . to —I our feel regiments it ' s all up . As with for us making , sergeant any , more reme remember mber money when when here I I was was in nabbing listed listed the the recruits sergeant sergeant , that told tol ' s d all me m *» over IT''d d have haw now » . my mv I
shilling a day to put in my , pocket . I felt mad at the way I was trapped took me in . , and But , however could a ' , most I got have over murdered it in time , the and man now that that I ' m a recruiter myself , somehow I don't think it worth while to away explai again n to the in boys stoppages that . the Ha shilling ! ha ! ' s only given ' em to be took and Sergeant quite right Strong too . It ( appreciating ain ' t our places the to joke expose ) . —Ha the ! frauds ha ! ha of ! what our betters we used , is it to be . Wh we ' y re , I quite rem reasonable ember my - respected like compared fathe to r , he how told he the used chawbacons to make us . He ng ' used uns at to home laugh laugh himself at the when tales he loiq told . us us ho now w he ne picKea picked up up fm ifty ry men men for ior the tne 1 i 60 ootn th Foot r oot in in 1015 1815 ..
The regiment was under orders for India , and he got the tur i c n ou India ned ntry up , la with ds all of bla 'list a ckies sudden by t to elling , a do nd them all the their re what gime work lots nt . of But s ord then e red ey Boney off ' d get to the Belgium mud . atween And as Brussels they was and a toiling Waterloo along the through the heard rain and one calls of the five lads shillings say to a another day and , " a Dang nigger to , , Ji wait m , governor this on you is ! what " they have Corporal known they Longbow was going . —That to fight ' s not Boney bad , could ; but he he ? could There ' nt ' s no I was amount out for of the gammon Long- that tailed those Cattle country Corps chaps ( as we won used 't swallow to call . the Land Transport Corps ) in ' 55 and the boys were rather
we backward have get to do to . in eat there coming in V the says forward Crymear another , as ? , " y s , ou ays " Well m one . ay , boy . say ( t s . What , " says What shall I , shall " we as for morning eating with , you your 'll have hot rolls a comfortable and coffee . rasher ( I didn of 't bacon say nothing every get about the the best coffee of food being for green dinner —I and ' m not supper that , with colour a , ) slice , and of you but 'll - tered toast with your tea . And nothing to do all day but just through amuse yourselves that lovely a country fishing , where in the the beautiful grapes rivers grow out that in run the dozens fields . " , but Blest lots if of they ' em didn took ' t out bite their at that fishing , and - not rods onl with y 'listed them by to — — 1
officer Ballyclaver as they . landed " What . •— have " Fishing you -rods got , your there , honour men ¦— - —— ? , " " says says ' one the . : to " Sure do here and but didn just 't the fish gemman all day that long 'listed and us enjoy say we ourselves 'd have . " little * I need for firewood ' nt tell you before that long the rods and was lad all too took they away and to get broken bit up of
warmth out of them out , there in the snow . were But I heard a afterwards to be out from there the sergeants , when the that men it was came lucky to find that I out didn what ' t happen they'd got Serg to do eant , and Strong what they . — 'd Ah got , ah to . eat If . they ' d too much of one , look they'd here too what little of this t ' other here , Horse so that Guards made it Mem all square . . about But just - will motion aril ! be V »*» . before T- »* , { fi- Reads » v /» long Irkii . ) promoted ¦ nrrnm " If the soldier " Bosh "Rr » cTi should ! ! I T cuvc qualif I says never tipvpi y himself " knew tnmir pro , one r \ r he \ ex
except of these one country , and he clod was -hoppers promoted . promoted not ^ because says under ; a dozen so long years in , the oath service J He , was but a because stupid go he od-natured was so chap fat . ; It no ' use fact anywhere , ' pon my : but he had grown that fat a swilling mutton broth 365 days in would the year hold , that him there ; so the wasn colonel ' t a sentry made box him in a corporal the garrison , and that that way got him off guards . soldiering Corporal . H Longbow oweverwe . — must Well try , it and ain ' get t many over this that here get cussed fat on
Memorandum as best , we can . You see there ain ' t one in twenty reading of these clod to - them hoppers , and who I think can read we ; know so we' the ll get old into tale by way heart of There well enoug ' s a lout h to just read come that into out to the ' em bar instead . He ' s of two this -thirds poor stuff tipsy ! p already ick-em , - so ups I , daresay as the governor another here pint call of s the his M collected arquis of heel Granb taps y ' s , will isut do it the job not . A-doo ior . tne cioasmariea { Exit to bar . )
and was was proof against a ao , Mr . Joe Longbow -nopper ' s naa persuasions . already , he resumed He ' s not , mu for Josep disquieted h , " muttered inspirit Sergeant , his stud Pitchit y of the Strong Adjutant , as - General ' s sensible and business-like Memorandum " on the advantages Majesty as soldiers obtainable . " by young men who faithfully serve Her
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Recruiting * A fact Commission ! For further . particulars ,- see the Report of the Army
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Nov. 30, 1867, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_30111867/page/1/
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