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A Queer Career.
grinning . Like ! Oh , horror ! it was intended for a profile of myself ! The nez retrousse might have been repudiated . There were many on board to whom that feature might have been attributed ; but a certain double pin in my Albert cravat—a large pin and a little pin—connected by a chain , had lent itself to the outline , and the pourtraying fiend had seized upon that ostensible accessory , and I had to plead guilty , and pay sixpence . I looked around for the perpetrator of the atrocity . Have you ever seen the pianoin the caricature
forte player German , where he poses himself on the conclusion of his performance to receive the applause of his ' auditors ? That was the attitude of this proud artist , receiving the gratulations of the passengers on board the good shin " Mars . " As I placed the coin in his not too ostentatiously distended palm , I looked upwards , and caught sight of an excrescence on the cheek , and recognised—Mr . Mole ! The unhappy performer of a popular lyricthe refrain of which announces" I am
, , always on the move , sir , " is expected , while singing , to keep trotting backwards and forwards to illustrate the peripatetic proposition . The next tune I saw my hero he was rushing backwards and forwards by the kerb of London Bridge , as if he had anticipated this lively ballad . He bore a tray , upon which was piled a heap of gilt
card counters—assuming to resemble dragon sovereigns—the obverse showing a poorly executed profile of Her Majesty , the reverse , a man astride a horse , with the legend inscribed above him , "To Hanover , " and the date beneath , 1837 , sufficiently indicating the gratification which found its popular expression in a kind of joy medal struck by or for the people when the hated Duke of Cumberland left this country for his German kingdom , on the death of our Kiug Williarn IV . * " Go to Hanover " is a comminatory
adjuration not wholly unknown now , I believe , among our lower classes . Well , Mr . Mole was purveying these medals in this wise , — " The gambling tendencies of our nobility—ladies and gentlemen—are too well known to you all to require expatiation upon from me . I am here as the humble instrument to decide which shall be the winner of a wager of ten thousand pounds made this morning between that celebrated sporting peer , the most noble the Marquis
of Waterford , and a certain downy Captain—of the right sort—whose name shall be mum ! The noble Marquis bet the Captain—IN PONTES TO THE ABOVE AMOUNT —that a trustworthy emissary should not perambulate London Bridge at mid-day for the space of one hour , and sell one hundred sovereigns at a penny a-piece . There are two conditions of THE BET—the one is that I must always keep moving , and the other that I may never sell more than a single coin to any one person . Now , then , my plucky speculators , " and so on , and so on , and so on .
I think I have mentioned Charlton Fair , where Mr . Mole appeared without shoes and stockings . I beheld him on the afternoon of that clay , when , having replaced yEschylus in his ragged pocket , he had apparently taken a business—that is to say , he had invested some superfluous coin of which he had temporarily found himself in possession , in the purchase of three canes , three coker nuts , three bags containing sand , and about two dozen short bludgeons . He was smoking a very diminutive pipe ,
and actively running about barefooted—but crowned with his glossy crest—and as he cheerfully replaced the coker nuts as fast as they were knocked over into the bags of sand , he addressed the fair-haunting rustics hilariously . " Here y' are , my noble swells —six sticks a pemry—this is the way to get nuts for nothing and sport into the bargain !" 1 S 53 sees me agahi at Epsom . It is West Australian ' s year . It is the last
year that those naughty booths shall be open on the common beyond Tattenham Corner , where you don't have nuts for your money and sport for nothing , it is true ; but Hebrew women in the flesh , and plenty of it , sitting in crimson and purple velvet , and asking the most perfect strangers to drink champagne , and light up choice regalias , and munch sandwiches , all free gratis for nothing , and who ferociously " row" John and " 'Any "—in plush and tights , and silks—rather open to the charge of seediness , however—if they don't " see as the gemman's glass is filled , and won't the Capting take
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A Queer Career.
grinning . Like ! Oh , horror ! it was intended for a profile of myself ! The nez retrousse might have been repudiated . There were many on board to whom that feature might have been attributed ; but a certain double pin in my Albert cravat—a large pin and a little pin—connected by a chain , had lent itself to the outline , and the pourtraying fiend had seized upon that ostensible accessory , and I had to plead guilty , and pay sixpence . I looked around for the perpetrator of the atrocity . Have you ever seen the pianoin the caricature
forte player German , where he poses himself on the conclusion of his performance to receive the applause of his ' auditors ? That was the attitude of this proud artist , receiving the gratulations of the passengers on board the good shin " Mars . " As I placed the coin in his not too ostentatiously distended palm , I looked upwards , and caught sight of an excrescence on the cheek , and recognised—Mr . Mole ! The unhappy performer of a popular lyricthe refrain of which announces" I am
, , always on the move , sir , " is expected , while singing , to keep trotting backwards and forwards to illustrate the peripatetic proposition . The next tune I saw my hero he was rushing backwards and forwards by the kerb of London Bridge , as if he had anticipated this lively ballad . He bore a tray , upon which was piled a heap of gilt
card counters—assuming to resemble dragon sovereigns—the obverse showing a poorly executed profile of Her Majesty , the reverse , a man astride a horse , with the legend inscribed above him , "To Hanover , " and the date beneath , 1837 , sufficiently indicating the gratification which found its popular expression in a kind of joy medal struck by or for the people when the hated Duke of Cumberland left this country for his German kingdom , on the death of our Kiug Williarn IV . * " Go to Hanover " is a comminatory
adjuration not wholly unknown now , I believe , among our lower classes . Well , Mr . Mole was purveying these medals in this wise , — " The gambling tendencies of our nobility—ladies and gentlemen—are too well known to you all to require expatiation upon from me . I am here as the humble instrument to decide which shall be the winner of a wager of ten thousand pounds made this morning between that celebrated sporting peer , the most noble the Marquis
of Waterford , and a certain downy Captain—of the right sort—whose name shall be mum ! The noble Marquis bet the Captain—IN PONTES TO THE ABOVE AMOUNT —that a trustworthy emissary should not perambulate London Bridge at mid-day for the space of one hour , and sell one hundred sovereigns at a penny a-piece . There are two conditions of THE BET—the one is that I must always keep moving , and the other that I may never sell more than a single coin to any one person . Now , then , my plucky speculators , " and so on , and so on , and so on .
I think I have mentioned Charlton Fair , where Mr . Mole appeared without shoes and stockings . I beheld him on the afternoon of that clay , when , having replaced yEschylus in his ragged pocket , he had apparently taken a business—that is to say , he had invested some superfluous coin of which he had temporarily found himself in possession , in the purchase of three canes , three coker nuts , three bags containing sand , and about two dozen short bludgeons . He was smoking a very diminutive pipe ,
and actively running about barefooted—but crowned with his glossy crest—and as he cheerfully replaced the coker nuts as fast as they were knocked over into the bags of sand , he addressed the fair-haunting rustics hilariously . " Here y' are , my noble swells —six sticks a pemry—this is the way to get nuts for nothing and sport into the bargain !" 1 S 53 sees me agahi at Epsom . It is West Australian ' s year . It is the last
year that those naughty booths shall be open on the common beyond Tattenham Corner , where you don't have nuts for your money and sport for nothing , it is true ; but Hebrew women in the flesh , and plenty of it , sitting in crimson and purple velvet , and asking the most perfect strangers to drink champagne , and light up choice regalias , and munch sandwiches , all free gratis for nothing , and who ferociously " row" John and " 'Any "—in plush and tights , and silks—rather open to the charge of seediness , however—if they don't " see as the gemman's glass is filled , and won't the Capting take