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    August i 3> 187a] THE TO MA HA WK. *%_

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    HISTORY FOR ASTLBY'Sl

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    written It it with by the great Emperor ...

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    August I 3> 187a] The To Ma Ha Wk. *%_

    August i 187 a ] THE TO MA HA WK . * % _

    History For Astlby'sl

    HISTORY FOR ASTLBY'Sl

    Written It It With By The Great Emperor ...

    It it with written opening by couraged "flow of Gomershall proclamations and blue

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    . Treaties to the . wails Bismarc . Doors k and r , and Kivg L . William C- a table discovered covered . The King speaks with a strong German accent . William Belgium . — ? That frog-eating Frenchman—he would . —He would not , your Majesty . He declared that Alma was his Inkermann firm friend— and that Sebastopol he would not betray his old

    William , . —Bah J , What old John . Bull ! What abHe . — would Quite not so , fight Sire to ! save ( Aside his own — ) Fight mother for -in his -law own . law ! Of course not He ' s not such a fool ! William the representative . —Push on of the France war , , Bismarck at Ems , and . I no insulted w my must k beat France after herself the at Saarbriick sulted . { Exit L . at

    ( looking King ) .--In ' France , ?) you Guardian Yes 'd better , your ! mind Majesty your —you P ' s and bully Q me 's ! as ( rings if you were bell ( Enter a GORGEOUS FLUNKEY , R . ) Flunkey . — 'Is H ' excellensy rung ^ I think ? k . I — mean I did . the Send English up the journalist prisoner waiting downstairs

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    my , I my duty . ( Enter Smith—he carries an umbrella . ) —I . — can So ' t , sow sirrah ; I ! haven't a needle-gun t Do . —Ah I ? , you You laugh know at best me whether ! there is anything to Do . —You know were that found taking doom a sketch is death of ? the fortress at —You you be doomed / your . — will Your take levity place will here not — save in my you house from . instant death .

    the aid of I greet ye the great Emperor pleasure Napoleon that we publish in antici the pation following of the dram re a - , ( of to Astley attempt 's Amp the task hitheatre by . finding His that Majesty he has has acquired been en a - Chorus words" similar to that possessed by the late Mr

    . . Our to the readers Army , will & c , have have noticed been redolent that His of Majesty Fit * bal 's l ( ire : 9 fje Battle of Saarfcrtsefc ! All Officer ( ( The OR , BY-WARRIOR OF THE TMPERTAL XURSERY .

    A HISTORICAL HIPPODRAMA , BY LOUIS NAPOLEON OF "THE LIFE OF C / KSAR , " " , COUP D I KTAT , ** ETC . Scene hanging . — IN THREE ACTS . with under the iimnediate superintendence of the Author seated

    and his Infant Son . Kino not Bismarck accept ACT I . The . Soldiers Courtyard carousing of the Tuileries . Several , with Troopers Balcony of ( the

    over With All the its Rhine wine , -. mother King -inShall be mine , ! soldiers Beneditti , in vague uniform ( tenor ) . — Bismarc The How silv dearl ' ry Rhine y love ! d the its banks silv ' ry I Rhine ! on Ems the ! table Ah I cry And and offer sigh , and thanks moan and whine , a St . Pancras the battle up my is raised ; boys

    The And For silv soon 'ry you Rhine 'll cry all 1 be the praised silv , ' ry my , Rhine my boys , ! . in Gorgeous Bismarc the hall . A I of cry ¦ % ** J Maidens t and » l « X « sig h , of W and l «\» Forty ««* moan W **»* . and mmm — whine ww *»*»«^ ! Gorgeous He in cries and uniform sighs and . — moans—a whine ! attended Bismarc to The I cry silv vague and 'ry Rhine sigh and ! the moan silv ' and ry Rhine whine ! 1 all ^ I tmm ^ - now powerful mm - ^ r ww , as r * w

    Smith the end —Special of the song Correspondent Marshal of Lebceuf the "Pedlington and John ing I now at my to Mercury "—** «/ W- R . ) not . — mind No , Mounseer a hasty meal , if you , a draug come ht to y the tent front , and an with occa us - —No in , your old boy abdomen , I shall . not be affrontea / Soldiers laugh , and Smith and Lebceuf re-I '

    tire in up vague . ) uniform . —Come , my lads , it ' s a sadI I ' ' m m lisp lisp A never dance rejoices , a dance —what ! say ye to a dance ? Ballet end of of the Vivandieres dance Lebozuf with and magic Smith bouquets come down . At ) the is . ing — no Well greenhorn our , Mounseer bayonets —he is , to not are the to you be Frontiers trifled still with decided ? . Mind upon the I ' ' m lisp I ' —Green horn—I hope to see the Prussian- £ /* i / Im lisp

    laug in h vague ) Uniform , — See , here comes theme Ah . , wcll Prussia -a-! Veeve Lomperaw / Bismarck The Smith Emperor " hurrays appears " grotesquely at the . window All laugh ^ l . . ) All cheer . Bismarck Smith . Emperor ) This war ( when will the be laug a h long is over and . )— serious Soldiers of one France The ! laugh Smith at . ! —

    . our ( groans Eagles ) are to fine the soldiers Rhine , . but ( we Cheers are finer . ) The . ( Cheers Rhine ! . ) Coblenr Bismarck . ounseer place Smith of our , you grandfathers are the ' representative bones . ( Cheers of . ) a As great for Bismarck Smith . With British sympathy French glory will never lackYour execution

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 13, 1870, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_13081870/page/11/