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Transcription	Punch . June 1862 . JAPAN AT EPSOM . ( From TAKE - NO - OUICHI - SKIMOD - ZUKE - NO - KAMI , & c . & c . , Japan Envoy Extraordinary , to the Head Daimio of the Denartment Correspondence touching the Barbarians . Nagase " TRULY these English Barbarians are a wonderful already seen the houses and feasts of their Daimios , or national talking - house , their great Exhibition , the wax - works , their garden of wild animals , their c manufactories , and we are indeed very weary , and time when we shall return to our beloved Japan . B seen the strangest of all the strange sights here , -w called the day of the going forth of the people of of Dar - bee . " Dar - bee is the name of one of the Great Daimio party opposed to the present Tycoon PAR - MER - STO feast comes to be called not after the name of the re of him who is now plotting to get his place and his we , your humble slaves , cannot explain . But it is the DAIRA IWAIMÉ , a man of sagacity and learning , tl honour of an Ancestor of the living Daimio DAR - BE to the religion of the Barbarians being worshipped of a horse , is reverenced with processions and races o yesterday beheld . The living Daimio DAR - BEE muc races of horses , as we are told by our attendant MAC " All the Barbarians in their chief town of Londe celebrate this festival , which is held at a place called distant from the capital , situated among hills , and aj high roads . Those who cannot buy or hire horse them thither , are compelled to go on foot , and all London assemble on the hills of Ep - sum , overlookir of green turf , which is an enclosure sacred to the g BEE , and is guarded by police - men in blue garment Tycoon PAR - MER - STOON himself is compelled to take and the Councils of the Nation are closed , that al Counsellors , and all their servants , may go with the of the great ancestor DAR - BEE . " We journeyed in two norimons , drawn each by fo to show our respect for the religion of the Barbe seven li , the road was full of carriages and horses carrying them journeyed to the feast . They recited loud prayers and sang ode the ancestor , and played on musical instruments , like to the stra horns used by sellers of fried fish in Japan , as they moved alon procession . For all the seven li these worshippers showed us m respect , lifting up the fore - finger to the nose , and extending the o fingers outwards , which is their greeting of honour in public , and cal out ' Hul - loo , cri - kee ! ' meaning , ' Oh , beautiful and wonderful ! ' also expressed aloud their admiration of our persons and our garme Our hats , which I and MATSADAIRA IWAIME wore because of the which shone this day - a circumstance not frequent in the countr England - were much praised , and many ( as interpreted to us MACDONALD ) asked at what place such hats could be purchased the Barbarian language ' Ooo - is - yoor - hatter ? ' ) I bade him ( MA NALD ) tell these inquiring Barbarians the name of the merchant in Street of Hatters at Nagasaki , of whom we purchased our trave supply of hats , and when I see the Daimio Rus - SOOL , I shall pro to him the opening of a trade in these hats , which the Barbarian much admire . This will give exceeding satisfaction to the Barbar spread our manufactures , and cause great gain to the hat - make Japan . Also , observing us to use our nose - papers , many asked us had sufficient thereof - the words being in their language , How yer - off - for - pa - per ! ' the meaning of which words MACDONALD ta us , telling us to answer in the Barbarian tongue , ' You - bee - blo which means , Thanks be unto you , O people , we have sufficien our needs . ' The Barbarian tongue , as your serenity will perceiv brief , and a few words mean much . " On their way to this feast the crowd stopped at certain smal temples by the way - side called ' turn - pike , ' where invocations were uttered in a loud voice , and small pieces of coin given to the priests , doubtless in payment for prayers , or for propitiation of the great ances tor DAR - BEE . At other temples by the way - side meat and drink , offerings were made by the Barbarians . Also priests in ragged mourning garments , with dust upon their heads , and bare - footed , ran by the way - side , with prayers inscribed on papers which they offered to the people for money . Of these prayer - papers we have bought some for deposit in the archives of the department for Correspondence with Barbarians . " When we came to the place where a seat of honour was prepared for us , we saw that all the Barbarians of London were indeed here assembled . The crowd was as the crowd of flies about the honey - pots in the market of Nuku Haima , and the shouting as the roar of many waters , and the horses and the carriages more than could be counted . And we saw the Tycoon , PAR - MER - STOON , in common garments like other men , with many counsellors of the Mikado and Daimios , and all the Parliament of the nation , in an enclosed place , below where we sat , and many of them had little books in their hands , and they stood in a ring , and wrote in their books , and uttered invocations in a loud voice sounding like ' I - lay - five - to - one , ' ' Six to nine - on - Buck - stone . I - take - it- , ' which we believe to have been prayers or religious exclamations , but they were not clearly explained to us , as indeed one interpreter was not sufficient for the many strange sights we saw that day . After awhile , all the people gathered in two rows , with an open green space between them , and a dog was let loose , and the people shouted as if devoting him to the evil powers , to which indeed we believe the unclean animal to have been offered as a sacrifice . Then came forth horses of exceeding height , but more thin than storks or flamingoes , with men on their backs in bright garments , and the people shouted , and the horses galloped up and down like the wind , more and more joining them , till at last , they all disap peared round the hill in front of us , and by the aid of the glasses which make far - off things near , we saw them a mile and a half away . Then of a sudden we heard a bell , and a loud shouting , and the crowd swayed to and fro , and we felt our heads go round by reason of the crying and the multitude , and in two moments after the bell , we heard a great roaring and a great sound of horses ' feet , and behold something rushed before us , but whether it was horses or men , or soldiers , or railway carriages , we knew not , and then the people poured into the green space which they had abstained from till now , and we were told the feast of Dar - bee was over , and there arose a noise as of pistols , and our hearts turned to water , but MACDONALD told us to be of good courage , for it was the corks of the wholesome medicinal drink called by the Barbarians sham - pain , ' of which we have often drunk , for it is good for the stomach in this country . Then all the multitude took food , and the means of spreading it out before them from their carriages , and drink , and began eating and drinking much in honour of ' Dar - bee , ' for this is a part of the festival which must on no account be omitted . " We are told that many Daimios give many thousands of taels at this festival to the priests of Dar - bee , who tend and do honour to the Laut fan thia ausiona faotival and that there are ALDERSHOT , 1872 . TUESDAY , APRIL the 23rd , THURSDAY , FRIDAY , 25th , 26th , Doors open at 9 .; Commence at 9.30 . WEDNESDAY , APRIL the 24th , Doors open at 3 .; Commence at 3.30 . LEADERS of the ORCHESTRA : Mr. SEUME , and SERGEANT BREAKER . Cependant elle avait aussi des qualités : Rien qu'en s'asseyant d ' ssus ell ' cassait des noisettes Et broyait des cailloux sous ses talons calleux ... Quand vous passerez par Trépagny les Chaussettes , Ils vous parleront tous d ' la vachèr ' de chez eux ! ... Un jour , notre facteur traversait la prairie , Marchant triste , rêveur et sans savoir pourquoi , Quand il voit tout à coup sa vachère chérie , Au pied d'un châtaignier , s'occupant ... mais à quoi ? Il la croyait en train de cueillir des violettes ... Pas du tout ! Ell ' causait avec son beau sapeur ... Quand vous passerez par Trépagny les Chaussettes , Chacun vous parlera de l'affair ' du sapeur . Le facteur , jusque - là , se doutait de la chose , Une fois convaincu qu'il ne se trompait pas , Soudain à se venger voilà qu'il se dispose ; Des coupabl's et d ' lui - même il jure le trépas . Du poison des Borgia connaissant les recettes , Savez - vous ce que fit le désolé facteur ? Il mit pendant trois jours infuser ses chaussettes Puis il empoisonna lui , la femme et l'sapeur . La légend ' du facteur a bercé mon enfance .... On la reconte encor loin , bien loin du pays . Tout le monde la sait : voilà pourquoi , je pense , On ajouta « chaussette » au nom de Trépagny . Depuis , l'autorité , par la voix des gazettes , A dit pour éviter de semblables malheurs ; « Désormais , les piétons n'porteront plus d'chaussettes . » > -C'est encor ' défendu maintenant aux facteurs . The Prince of Wales , a re leased prisoner of war since yesterday , followed with his 2d cavalry brigade . Sir Thomas M'Mahon , with the 3d cavalry brigade , came next , with his trim 9th Lancers , looking much better than the 12th both in horse and drill . standard 28th Sept 1871 . RACKSO Ged No. XVII - THE PRIVATE SOLDIER . Adieu , Tomahawk The second letter was to Mdme . Goulot , late Mdlle . Marie Fichu . As before , I have amended the spelling , but this time I have not translated : A YEAR ago an untoward catastrophe befell Jean Tripou ; he drew peine en épousant Goulot vous vous trompez , je vous assure ; car je me moque pas mal de Madame ( car pour moi vous n'êtes plus Mademoiselle ) , si vous pensez me faire de la " No. 12 " at the conscription and was forthwith marched off to the army lui . Ici toutes les filles sont folles de moi . Ce n'est pas pour me vanter ; mais seulement Now imagine the position of Tripou , who had peaceful tastes and detested bloodshed . He was a simple peasant - very simple - whose father could voiture à douze chevaux m'a fait de l'œeil , et ce matin son frère , qui est maréchal de France pour vous dire qu'elles ont meilleur goût que vous . Hier une duchesse qui passait dans sa neither read nor write , and whose mother had taught him to believe in et cousin de l'Empereur , est venu m'inviter à diner . Encore une fois ce n'est pas pour ghosts , amulets , and diabolic visitations . When it thundered , me vanter , mais seulement pour vous montrer que j'ai de quoi me consoler . the Tripou family used to think it was the Evil One who , incensed Madame , j'épouserai sans doute bientôt ma duchesse , qui m'obtiendra mon congé , et me at being turned out of his first abode , was making a riot in the fera nommer colonel . Ainsi je ne vous garde pas rancune , mais bien au contraire vous clouds to revenge himself . When it hailed , the Tripou family tied remercie d'avoir épousé Goulot qu oique ce soit un fier imbecile et que si on le a sheep's tail to the end of a piece of stick and planted the stick tenait ici on lui flanquerait quinze jours de salle de police rien que pour être si bête . - Bien in the ground . Hail , as they knew , is another of the devil's works , le bonjour , but the devil is afraid of sheeps ' tails , and never throws stones into a field JEAN TRIPOU . where he sees one tied to a bit of stick . This was a secret confided to the 1867 As there is no doubt but that the approaching return to village by Tripou's grandsire . The father of Tripou had an acre of his London of the Prince of Wales is giving general satisfaction to own which Jean Trip tilled . When there was nothing for him to do at everybody , we are not surprised to hear that , on the Prince's home , he worked for the neighbouring farmers , earning between twenty - five arrival at Charing - cross station , a public reception will be given and forty sous a day , according to the season : twenty - five sous in winter to him , and that a procession will be formed to accompany His and forty at harvest time , besides which he was given his two meals . Royal Highness through Trafalgar Square and along Pall Mall to Marlborough House . The following is the programme as at He was contented enough , and would have been happy but for the present decided upon : thought of the conscription . He had been to the primary school , and had profited enough thereby to to write on the walls . with a bit of chalk : " Not ' mair est une une viel savat . " If his spelling was faulty it was that the man is not perfect . Tripou's favourite amuse ment was to go out into a field with his comrades when the day's work was over and play at the national game of leap - frog . When the port began to flag the great fun was to duck suddenly down on one's nees just as one's friend had taken his jump ; this sent him flat on his ose and made the others laugh . But there was something Tripou liked . ven better than this , and that was courting . He was in love with Marie the who lived had promised to marry him if he drew " a good number " on the dreaded " jour du tirage . " Unfortunately , old Fichu had an unpleasant habit of throwing : imself athwart the courtship , and saying whenever he met Tripou , Ecoute , mon garçon , si je te prends à roder comme ça autour de Marie , aurai bientôt fait de te couper les oreilles . Attends que la conscription bit finie , puis nous verrons . ' This " attends que la conscription soit nie " was the phrase the unhappy Tripou heard everywhere , It was like log of wood tied to his leg by a chain ; it made his life a burden to him ... He could not take a step without being reminded by it that he was not his wn master , and that until he had dipped his hand into the Government ottery - box it was no good his planning any schemes for the future . 33 As I have already said , poor Jean Tripou drew No. 12 , notwith tanding a magic amulet which his mother had hung round his neck , and a aper full of dead flies which his father had exhorted him to put into his waistcoat pocket . As everybody is aware , amulets and dead flies are sure preservatif es against ill luck , and if they did not have their effect in Jean Tripou's case it is because - as M. le Curé remarked - it is the exception which makes the rule . Unfortunately the Tripou family did not possess the 2,500 francs ( £ 100 ) necessary to buy Jean a substitute , and so his No. 12 was a figure of fate . He was like a limp sack on the morning of the " tirage , " and the same evening he looked like a sheet of blotting paper . The next day he went to try and get a glimpse of Marie Fichu , but old Fichu was on the look out . A conscript who has nine years of service before him a " triste lupus stabulis , " an animal who can mean no good to the sheepfold . Old Fichu had got his gun ready , and albeit it was a flint lock yet Tripou grew shy at the look of it . Within the week he heard that Marie had been seen to smile benevolently upon Pierre Goulot , he innkeeper , who was a widower , but yet hale and lusty . This news ecided him . He packed up all his linen in a pocket - handkerchief , bid ood - bye to his parents , and without waiting for the month of July started ff for the army , selecting as his regiment the cuirassiers , most likely on ccount of the helmet and breastplate . Three months afterwards the two following letters were received in his llage . The first was to his parents : in translation I have mended the pelling : MEN OF THE SECOND EMPIRE . 6 My dear Father and Mother , -This is written at Versailles , where the regiment is hartered . I hope you are quite well . Versailles is a town with a fine castle in which ouis Quatorze lived until he was knocked over by the Emperor for being a Republican . Le is at present in England with his son the Duke d'Aumale , who used to be in the my . It is our brigadier ( corporal ) who told me this . He knows a great many things , our brigadier , and he says that as the French soldier should never be without money , I am to ask you for twenty francs ; he is going to show me how to spend them . Please don't forget the twenty francs . When I came here I had a lot of hair , but they cut it all off , and made my head look a beechnut . I wanted to pick up all the hair and put it in a paper to burn it because of what you told me about one's enemy being able to do one harm by getting hold of a lock and boiling it , but our brigadier gave me a kick which sent me into the yard . He is very strong in the right leg , our brigadier . After I had been here five days they gave me ten sous for my pay . I said it wasn't enough , because that only made two sous a day ; but our captain asked me if I wanted to make a fool of him . I don't like him , our captain . It is he who stands in the riding - school , where they took me the first day I put on my uniform . They brought out a horse without saddle or bridle , and said , " Now get upon that . " I old ' em I'd rather not . They said this made no difference , and two of ' em caught me ind hoisted me up . The brute of a horse began to trot , and I cried " Stop ! " but he aid no attention until I got hold of his ears , then he kicked me off . The next day , when they told me to go to the " manége " I knew what it meant , so instead of going I went out for a walk and didn't come back till dinner . For this they gave me a week in the salle de police , which is a dark room with nothing in it except boards . Please don't forget the twenty francs . The best of being a soldier is that every ten days they give you an order for a packet of " cantine tobacco , " which weighs a hundred grammes , and for which you only pay 3 sous . It is the Emperor who has done this , * and our brigadier says he would do a great deal more if the " Reds " let him . But the " Reds " hate us ; it is they who make us have boiled beef every day , and no sauce to it ; and our brigadier says that if they could they would make us break stones and set us to serve twenty years instead of nine . I don't like the Reds , and if I have a chance I shall knock their ears off with my sword . I must stop here , for the trumpet you've just heard is for dinner . It's a pound of bread , with boiled beef in some soup . Yesterday mine was all fat . Please don't forget the twenty francs . Your affectionate son , JEAN TRIPOU . 1 Lieutenant - Colonels of the Guards . ( To clear the way ) . The Band of the Royal Italian Opera , Covent Garden . Mr. Poole . ( Of Savile Row ) . Members of the House of Peers . Friends of his Royal High ness . ( Two and two ) . The Prince's Tradesmen . ( In pairs ) . The Committee of the Marlborough Club , carrying a banner with the motto : " There's na lack about the house , When my gude man's awa ' . " Friends of Lord Carington . ( In broughams ) . Band of the Sacred Harmonic Society . Conductor - Sir Michael Costa ( on horseback ) . HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , In a smoking carriage ( kindly lent by the Metropolitan Railway Company ) , and drawn by the four principal favourites for the Derby . A detachment of Fire Engines , under the direction of the Duke of Sutherland . More Officers of the Guards . Committeemen of the Arlington , Stewards of the Jockey Club . Mr. Arthur Lloyd . The Archbishop of Canterbury , & c . , & c . Lord Albert Pelham Clinton has discovered a new way of outrunning the constable . He has just earned £ 50 for his creditors by walking ten miles in two hours at Hackney Wick , in the presence of " a select circle of friends . " He had , we learn from a fashionable contemporary , " no pre tensions to style , his feet coming down flat and heavily at every stride , " but cheers greeted the pedestrian at the termination of the feat , which was he walked the distance within three minutes of the prescribed time . " Loud accomplished solely by great gameness . " His lordship certainly deserves every encouragement in his ambition to be considered fast in a different sense from that in which the adjective has hitherto been applied to his debts , and if matches fail , Lord Hartington might " stand by his order " career . By his earnings as a pedestrian he may in time pay off his and find employment for him as a postman . Lord Albert's " clearly preferable to that of Lord William Beresford , of the 9th Lancers , gameness " who has been fined £ 5 for creating a disturbance at midnight in a beer shop in Roehampton - lane and assaulting the police . " is : Pall Mall Gagette 3th - May 1871 . The Era has discovered in a Spanish newspaper , the Porvenar di Seville , a very original account of the Oxford and Cambridge boat - race , which , the Spaniards are told , " commences at Westminster , by the Houses of Parliament , and takes its course up the grand river to the parks of Greenwich and Richmond . " The regattas of London are , " with the races of Epsom and Derby , " the great feasts of the year . This year the river , on the occasion of the Oxford and Cambridge boat - race , is said to have been crowded with two thousand steamers , " at the head of which sailed the Prince of Wales in a small boat " with thirty distinguished persons . " While the race was going on bands of music paraded the streets , " some with black faces . " " A cannon from the Tower announced the victor . After the regatta , 100,000 restaurants were opened to the public , who crowded into them to drink their beer . In the villas in the vicinity of the race dinners were given to all Cambridge people to the number of several thousands , the young people afterwards enjoying the ball . " Jums 9 : ik 87 / The Reason Why . 9t EVERYBODY has endeavoured to discover the cause of the sudden abandonment of the Berkshire Campaign by the War Office authori ties . We are happy to be in a position to lay before the public the solution of the unexpected change . We extract the following notice from the Aldershot and Sandhurst Military Gazette : Private W. Tof the 9th Lancers , is open to eat cheese bread , sausages , pickles , herrings , potted beef , pigs feet , tripe , beef steak , ham , potatoes , bacon , green goose berries , Yorkshire pudding , cold cabbage , and lard , against any man in the Alder shot Division . A match can be made at any time for £ 1 or upwards by applying to Private S H F Troop , 9th Lancers , South Cavalry Barracks . No wonder in the face of an appetite at which the best regulated Commissariat might turn pale , ME CARDWELL at once abandoned the plan ! But there is this compensating fact in this alarming announce ment : -if among our gallant defenders there are many privates with such powers of eating as this one , we could soon reduce any enemy into whose country we could introduce a few voracious veterans of this stamp .

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Punch .
June 1862 .
JAPAN AT EPSOM .
( From TAKE - NO - OUICHI - SKIMOD - ZUKE - NO - KAMI , & c . & c . , Japan Envoy Extraordinary , to the Head Daimio of the Denartment Correspondence touching the Barbarians . Nagase
" TRULY these English Barbarians are a wonderful already seen the houses and feasts of their Daimios , or national talking - house , their great Exhibition , the wax - works , their garden of wild animals , their c manufactories , and we are indeed very weary , and time when we shall return to our beloved Japan . B seen the strangest of all the strange sights here , -w called the day of the going forth of the people of of Dar - bee .
" Dar - bee is the name of one of the Great Daimio party opposed to the present Tycoon PAR - MER - STO feast comes to be called not after the name of the re of him who is now plotting to get his place and his we , your humble slaves , cannot explain . But it is the DAIRA IWAIMÉ , a man of sagacity and learning , tl honour of an Ancestor of the living Daimio DAR - BE to the religion of the Barbarians being worshipped of a horse , is reverenced with processions and races o yesterday beheld . The living Daimio DAR - BEE muc races of horses , as we are told by our attendant MAC
" All the Barbarians in their chief town of Londe celebrate this festival , which is held at a place called distant from the capital , situated among hills , and aj high roads . Those who cannot buy or hire horse them thither , are compelled to go on foot , and all London assemble on the hills of Ep - sum , overlookir of green turf , which is an enclosure sacred to the g BEE , and is guarded by police - men in blue garment Tycoon PAR - MER - STOON himself is compelled to take and the Councils of the Nation are closed , that al Counsellors , and all their servants , may go with the of the great ancestor DAR - BEE .
" We journeyed in two norimons , drawn each by fo to show our respect for the religion of the Barbe seven li , the road was full of carriages and horses carrying them journeyed to the feast . They recited loud prayers and sang ode the ancestor , and played on musical instruments , like to the stra horns used by sellers of fried fish in Japan , as they moved alon procession . For all the seven li these worshippers showed us m respect , lifting up the fore - finger to the nose , and extending the o fingers outwards , which is their greeting of honour in public , and cal out ' Hul - loo , cri - kee ! ' meaning , ' Oh , beautiful and wonderful ! ' also expressed aloud their admiration of our persons and our garme Our hats , which I and MATSADAIRA IWAIME wore because of the which shone this day - a circumstance not frequent in the countr England - were much praised , and many ( as interpreted to us MACDONALD ) asked at what place such hats could be purchased the Barbarian language ' Ooo - is - yoor - hatter ? ' ) I bade him ( MA NALD ) tell these inquiring Barbarians the name of the merchant in Street of Hatters at Nagasaki , of whom we purchased our trave supply of hats , and when I see the Daimio Rus - SOOL , I shall pro to him the opening of a trade in these hats , which the Barbarian much admire . This will give exceeding satisfaction to the Barbar spread our manufactures , and cause great gain to the hat - make Japan . Also , observing us to use our nose - papers , many asked us had sufficient thereof - the words being in their language , How yer - off - for - pa - per ! ' the meaning of which words MACDONALD ta us , telling us to answer in the Barbarian tongue , ' You - bee - blo which means , Thanks be unto you , O people , we have sufficien our needs . ' The Barbarian tongue , as your serenity will perceiv brief , and a few words mean much .
" On their way to this feast the crowd stopped at certain smal temples by the way - side called ' turn - pike , ' where invocations were uttered in a loud voice , and small pieces of coin given to the priests , doubtless in payment for prayers , or for propitiation of the great ances tor DAR - BEE . At other temples by the way - side meat and drink , offerings were made by the Barbarians . Also priests in ragged mourning garments , with dust upon their heads , and bare - footed , ran by the way - side , with prayers inscribed on papers which they offered to the people for money . Of these prayer - papers we have bought some for deposit in the archives of the department for Correspondence with Barbarians .
" When we came to the place where a seat of honour was prepared for us , we saw that all the Barbarians of London were indeed here assembled . The crowd was as the crowd of flies about the honey - pots in the market of Nuku Haima , and the shouting as the roar of many waters , and the horses and the carriages more than could be counted . And we saw the Tycoon , PAR - MER - STOON , in common garments like other men , with many counsellors of the Mikado and Daimios , and all the Parliament of the nation , in an enclosed place , below where we sat , and many of them had little books in their hands , and they stood in a ring , and wrote in their books , and uttered invocations in a loud voice sounding like ' I - lay - five - to - one , ' ' Six to nine - on - Buck - stone . I - take - it- , ' which we believe to have been prayers or religious exclamations , but they were not clearly explained to us , as indeed one interpreter was not sufficient for the many strange sights we saw that day . After awhile , all the people gathered in two rows , with an open green space between them , and a dog was let loose , and the people shouted as if devoting him to the evil powers , to which indeed we believe the unclean animal to have been offered as a sacrifice . Then came forth horses of exceeding height , but more thin than storks or flamingoes , with men on their backs in bright garments , and the people shouted , and the horses galloped up and down like the wind , more and more joining them , till at last , they all disap peared round the hill in front of us , and by the aid of the glasses which make far - off things near , we saw them a mile and a half away . Then of a sudden we heard a bell , and a loud shouting , and the crowd swayed to and fro , and we felt our heads go round by reason of the crying and the multitude , and in two moments after the bell , we heard a great roaring and a great sound of horses ' feet , and behold something rushed before us , but whether it was horses or men , or soldiers , or railway carriages , we knew not , and then the people poured into the green space which they had abstained from till now , and we were told the feast of Dar - bee was over , and there arose a noise as of pistols , and our hearts turned to water , but MACDONALD told us to be of good courage , for it was the corks of the wholesome medicinal drink called by the Barbarians sham - pain , ' of which we have often drunk , for it is good for the stomach in this country . Then all the multitude took food , and the means of spreading it out before them from their carriages , and drink , and began eating and drinking much in honour of ' Dar - bee , ' for this is a part of the festival which must on no account be omitted .
" We are told that many Daimios give many thousands of taels at this festival to the priests of Dar - bee , who tend and do honour to the Laut fan thia ausiona faotival and that there are
ALDERSHOT , 1872 .
TUESDAY , APRIL the 23rd ,
THURSDAY , FRIDAY ,
25th ,
26th ,
Doors open at 9 .; Commence at 9.30 .
WEDNESDAY , APRIL the 24th ,
Doors open at 3 .; Commence at 3.30 .
LEADERS of the ORCHESTRA : Mr. SEUME , and SERGEANT BREAKER .
Cependant elle avait aussi des qualités :
Rien qu'en s'asseyant d ' ssus ell ' cassait des noisettes Et broyait des cailloux sous ses talons calleux ... Quand vous passerez par Trépagny les Chaussettes , Ils vous parleront tous d ' la vachèr ' de chez eux ! ...
Un jour , notre facteur traversait la prairie , Marchant triste , rêveur et sans savoir pourquoi , Quand il voit tout à coup sa vachère chérie ,
Au pied d'un châtaignier , s'occupant ... mais à quoi ? Il la croyait en train de cueillir des violettes ... Pas du tout ! Ell ' causait avec son beau sapeur ... Quand vous passerez par Trépagny les Chaussettes , Chacun vous parlera de l'affair ' du sapeur .
Le facteur , jusque - là , se doutait de la chose , Une fois convaincu qu'il ne se trompait pas , Soudain à se venger voilà qu'il se dispose ; Des coupabl's et d ' lui - même il jure le trépas . Du poison des Borgia connaissant les recettes , Savez - vous ce que fit le désolé facteur ?
Il mit pendant trois jours infuser ses chaussettes Puis il empoisonna lui , la femme et l'sapeur .
La légend ' du facteur a bercé mon enfance .... On la reconte encor loin , bien loin du pays . Tout le monde la sait : voilà pourquoi , je pense , On ajouta « chaussette » au nom de Trépagny . Depuis , l'autorité , par la voix des gazettes , A dit pour éviter de semblables malheurs ;
« Désormais , les piétons n'porteront plus d'chaussettes . » > -C'est encor ' défendu maintenant aux facteurs .
The Prince of Wales , a re leased prisoner of war since yesterday , followed with his 2d cavalry brigade . Sir Thomas M'Mahon , with the 3d cavalry brigade , came next , with his trim 9th Lancers , looking much better than the 12th both in horse and drill .
standard 28th Sept 1871 .
RACKSO
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No. XVII - THE PRIVATE SOLDIER .
Adieu ,
Tomahawk
The second letter was to Mdme . Goulot , late Mdlle . Marie Fichu . As before , I have amended the spelling , but this time I have not translated : A YEAR ago an untoward catastrophe befell Jean Tripou ; he drew peine en épousant Goulot vous vous trompez , je vous assure ; car je me moque pas mal de Madame ( car pour moi vous n'êtes plus Mademoiselle ) , si vous pensez me faire de la " No. 12 " at the conscription and was forthwith marched off to the army lui . Ici toutes les filles sont folles de moi . Ce n'est pas pour me vanter ; mais seulement Now imagine the position of Tripou , who had peaceful tastes and detested bloodshed . He was a simple peasant - very simple - whose father could voiture à douze chevaux m'a fait de l'œeil , et ce matin son frère , qui est maréchal de France pour vous dire qu'elles ont meilleur goût que vous . Hier une duchesse qui passait dans sa neither read nor write , and whose mother had taught him to believe in et cousin de l'Empereur , est venu m'inviter à diner . Encore une fois ce n'est pas pour ghosts , amulets , and diabolic visitations . When it thundered , me vanter , mais seulement pour vous montrer que j'ai de quoi me consoler . the Tripou family used to think it was the Evil One who , incensed Madame , j'épouserai sans doute bientôt ma duchesse , qui m'obtiendra mon congé , et me at being turned out of his first abode , was making a riot in the fera nommer colonel . Ainsi je ne vous garde pas rancune , mais bien au contraire vous clouds to revenge himself . When it hailed , the Tripou family tied remercie d'avoir épousé Goulot qu oique ce soit un fier imbecile et que si on le a sheep's tail to the end of a piece of stick and planted the stick tenait ici on lui flanquerait quinze jours de salle de police rien que pour être si bête . - Bien in the ground . Hail , as they knew , is another of the devil's works , le bonjour , but the devil is afraid of sheeps ' tails , and never throws stones into a field JEAN TRIPOU . where he sees one tied to a bit of stick . This was a secret confided to the 1867 As there is no doubt but that the approaching return to village by Tripou's grandsire . The father of Tripou had an acre of his London of the Prince of Wales is giving general satisfaction to own which Jean Trip tilled . When there was nothing for him to do at everybody , we are not surprised to hear that , on the Prince's home , he worked for the neighbouring farmers , earning between twenty - five arrival at Charing - cross station , a public reception will be given and forty sous a day , according to the season : twenty - five sous in winter to him , and that a procession will be formed to accompany His and forty at harvest time , besides which he was given his two meals . Royal Highness through Trafalgar Square and along Pall Mall to Marlborough House . The following is the programme as at He was contented enough , and would have been happy but for the present decided upon : thought of the conscription . He had been to the primary school , and had profited enough thereby to to write on the walls . with a bit of chalk : " Not ' mair est une une viel savat . " If his spelling was faulty it was that the man is not perfect . Tripou's favourite amuse ment was to go out into a field with his comrades when the day's work was over and play at the national game of leap - frog . When the port began to flag the great fun was to duck suddenly down on one's nees just as one's friend had taken his jump ; this sent him flat on his ose and made the others laugh . But there was something Tripou liked . ven better than this , and that was courting . He was in love with Marie the who lived had promised to marry him if he drew " a good number " on the dreaded " jour du tirage . " Unfortunately , old Fichu had an unpleasant habit of throwing : imself athwart the courtship , and saying whenever he met Tripou , Ecoute , mon garçon , si je te prends à roder comme ça autour de Marie , aurai bientôt fait de te couper les oreilles . Attends que la conscription bit finie , puis nous verrons . ' This " attends que la conscription soit nie " was the phrase the unhappy Tripou heard everywhere , It was like log of wood tied to his leg by a chain ; it made his life a burden to him ... He could not take a step without being reminded by it that he was not his wn master , and that until he had dipped his hand into the Government ottery - box it was no good his planning any schemes for the future .
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As I have already said , poor Jean Tripou drew No. 12 , notwith tanding a magic amulet which his mother had hung round his neck , and a aper full of dead flies which his father had exhorted him to put into his waistcoat pocket . As everybody is aware , amulets and dead flies are sure preservatif es against ill luck , and if they did not have their effect in Jean Tripou's case it is because - as M. le Curé remarked - it is the exception which makes the rule . Unfortunately the Tripou family did not possess the 2,500 francs ( £ 100 ) necessary to buy Jean a substitute , and so his No. 12 was a figure of fate . He was like a limp sack on the morning of the " tirage , " and the same evening he looked like a sheet of blotting paper . The next day he went to try and get a glimpse of Marie Fichu , but old Fichu was on the look out . A conscript who has nine years of service before him a " triste lupus stabulis , " an animal who can mean no good to the sheepfold . Old Fichu had got his gun ready , and albeit it was a flint lock yet Tripou grew shy at the look of it . Within the week he heard that Marie had been seen to smile benevolently upon Pierre Goulot , he innkeeper , who was a widower , but yet hale and lusty . This news ecided him . He packed up all his linen in a pocket - handkerchief , bid ood - bye to his parents , and without waiting for the month of July started ff for the army , selecting as his regiment the cuirassiers , most likely on ccount of the helmet and breastplate .
Three months afterwards the two following letters were received in his llage . The first was to his parents : in translation I have mended the pelling :
MEN OF THE SECOND EMPIRE .
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My dear Father and Mother , -This is written at Versailles , where the regiment is hartered . I hope you are quite well . Versailles is a town with a fine castle in which ouis Quatorze lived until he was knocked over by the Emperor for being a Republican . Le is at present in England with his son the Duke d'Aumale , who used to be in the my . It is our brigadier ( corporal ) who told me this . He knows a great many things , our brigadier , and he says that as the French soldier should never be without money , I am to ask you for twenty francs ; he is going to show me how to spend them . Please don't forget the twenty francs . When I came here I had a lot of hair , but they cut it all off , and made my head look a beechnut . I wanted to pick up all the hair and put it in a paper to burn it because of what you told me about one's enemy being able to do one harm by getting hold of a lock and boiling it , but our brigadier gave me a kick which sent me into the yard . He is very strong in the right leg , our brigadier . After I had been here five days they gave me ten sous for my pay . I said it wasn't enough , because that only made two sous a day ; but our captain asked me if I wanted to make a fool of him . I don't like him , our captain . It is he who stands in the riding - school , where they took me the first day I put on my uniform . They brought out a horse without saddle or bridle , and said , " Now get upon that . " I old ' em I'd rather not . They said this made no difference , and two of ' em caught me ind hoisted me up . The brute of a horse began to trot , and I cried " Stop ! " but he aid no attention until I got hold of his ears , then he kicked me off . The next day , when they told me to go to the " manége " I knew what it meant , so instead of going I went out for a walk and didn't come back till dinner . For this they gave me a week in the salle de police , which is a dark room with nothing in it except boards . Please don't forget the twenty francs . The best of being a soldier is that every ten days they give you an order for a packet of " cantine tobacco , " which weighs a hundred grammes , and for which you only pay 3 sous . It is the Emperor who has done this , * and our brigadier says he would do a great deal more if the " Reds " let him . But the " Reds " hate us ; it is they who make us have boiled beef every day , and no sauce to it ; and our brigadier says that if they could they would make us break stones and set us to serve twenty years instead of nine . I don't like the Reds , and if I have a chance I shall knock their ears off with my sword . I must stop here , for the trumpet you've just heard is for dinner . It's a pound of bread , with boiled beef in some soup . Yesterday mine was all fat . Please don't forget the twenty francs . Your affectionate son , JEAN TRIPOU .
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Lieutenant - Colonels of the Guards . ( To clear the way ) .
The Band of the Royal Italian Opera , Covent Garden . Mr. Poole . ( Of Savile Row ) . Members of the House of Peers . Friends of his Royal High
ness .
( Two and two ) . The Prince's Tradesmen . ( In pairs ) .
The Committee of the Marlborough Club , carrying a banner with the motto :
" There's na lack about the house , When my gude man's awa ' . "
Friends of Lord Carington . ( In broughams ) .
Band of the Sacred Harmonic Society . Conductor - Sir Michael Costa ( on horseback ) .
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES ,
In a smoking carriage ( kindly lent by the Metropolitan Railway Company ) , and drawn by the four principal favourites for the Derby .
A detachment of Fire Engines , under the direction of the Duke of Sutherland .
More Officers of the Guards . Committeemen of the Arlington , Stewards of the Jockey Club . Mr. Arthur Lloyd .
The Archbishop of Canterbury , & c . , & c .
Lord Albert Pelham Clinton has discovered a new way of outrunning the constable . He has just earned £ 50 for his creditors by walking ten miles in two hours at Hackney Wick , in the presence of " a select circle of friends . " He had , we learn from a fashionable contemporary , " no pre tensions to style , his feet coming down flat and heavily at every stride , " but cheers greeted the pedestrian at the termination of the feat , which was he walked the distance within three minutes of the prescribed time . " Loud accomplished solely by great gameness . " His lordship certainly deserves
every encouragement in his ambition to be considered fast in a different sense from that in which the adjective has hitherto been applied to his debts , and if matches fail , Lord Hartington might " stand by his order " career . By his earnings as a pedestrian he may in time pay off his and find employment for him as a postman . Lord Albert's " clearly preferable to that of Lord William Beresford , of the 9th Lancers , gameness " who has been fined £ 5 for creating a disturbance at midnight in a beer shop in Roehampton - lane and assaulting the police .
" is :
Pall Mall Gagette 3th - May 1871 .
The Era has discovered in a Spanish newspaper , the Porvenar di Seville , a very original account of the Oxford and Cambridge boat - race , which , the Spaniards are told , " commences at Westminster , by the Houses of Parliament , and takes its course up the grand river to the parks of Greenwich and Richmond . " The regattas of London are , " with the races of Epsom and Derby , " the great feasts of the year . This year the river , on the occasion of the Oxford and Cambridge boat - race , is said to have been crowded with two thousand steamers , " at the head of which sailed the Prince of Wales in a small boat " with thirty distinguished persons . " While the race was going on bands of music paraded the streets , " some with black faces . " " A cannon from the Tower announced the victor . After the regatta , 100,000 restaurants were opened to the public , who crowded into them to drink their beer . In the villas in the vicinity of the race dinners were given to all Cambridge people to the number of several thousands , the young people afterwards enjoying the ball . "
Jums 9 : ik 87 / The Reason Why .
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EVERYBODY has endeavoured to discover the cause of the sudden abandonment of the Berkshire Campaign by the War Office authori ties . We are happy to be in a position to lay before the public the solution of the unexpected change . We extract the following notice from the Aldershot and Sandhurst Military Gazette :
Private W. Tof the 9th Lancers , is open to eat cheese bread , sausages , pickles , herrings , potted beef , pigs feet , tripe , beef steak , ham , potatoes , bacon , green goose berries , Yorkshire pudding , cold cabbage , and lard , against any man in the Alder shot Division . A match can be made at any time for £ 1 or upwards by applying to Private S H F Troop , 9th Lancers , South Cavalry Barracks .
No wonder in the face of an appetite at which the best regulated Commissariat might turn pale , ME CARDWELL at once abandoned the plan ! But there is this compensating fact in this alarming announce ment : -if among our gallant defenders there are many privates with such powers of eating as this one , we could soon reduce any enemy into whose country we could introduce a few voracious veterans of this stamp .

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