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April 23, 1859
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[April 23, 1859.
Delightful Boy. "Oh! Look 'ere, Jim! Here's a Swell—let's Frighten 'is 'Orse ! "
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE CAMBRIDGE MILLING L Town and Gown rows have thrived of late prodigious. A cove may
CLUB on 11 as a fi°Pe™ S1?n- F raPs there am t much science shown id
. . ' , 'em; p'raps there is. Still it's something. A man as would try to
We have been requested to insert the followine correspondence:— separate 'em in real earnest—mark my words—would get his head
The Cambridge Chicken to Alick Hopeful. I broke o' both sides. Feeling thuswise, I have, as you may ha' noticed,
" Mr dear Alick, BarmveH, March 16, 1859. Jf^the Town in five rows last year. It,'s true we was over-matched ;
U q„„„ e a. l l c r\l ■ i nv. but never sav die. 1 ain t conceited, thoush there s some as is. 1 ve
• f ^ pMM r USJa?ts t0 put you up for Chmrman and Cham- , d addresses from Granthamj Hirchir,, and Newmarket Goose-clubs,
thou of the C.M.C. We know you well. But here s some County . { . yellow-bovS got by raffles in my honour,
members as thinks Jack Slasher the man. They haven't seen j on « j ^ fco spmn? -Spamni ain>t millmV but it.? something:
and it's my opinion that, as things bar, you won't get much milling
done among the swells without the gloves. In my own neighbourhood
I've done my best to promote sparring. And I don't regret it.
use your mauleys. Tip us a line to show the others,—something
spicy, mind : you're the boy for that.
" Ever yours devotedly,
" Master A. Hopeful." " The Chicken."
But talk o' sparring. What's the C.M.C. ? Why it's the nurse
o' sparring. To keep up the C.M.C. is to keep up the Ring, and
that's to keep up the honour of England. I'm your man.
"Once I had a chance that falls to few. I was bottle-holder to
Ben. Caunt in his fight with Bendigo. The kind confidence of my
principal intrusted me with the bottle, and I did not abuse it.
" Will this do for you, Chicken ? or shall I spice it stronger ?
" I am, yours eternally, Alick Hopeful."
" The Cambridge Chicken, 8fc. fyc."
[Reply)
"Dear Chicken, "Cambridge, March 17, 1859.
"Yours just received. I answer by return, both hample
and explicit. Speaking personally, you do me proud. To be
Champion of that hancient harena, the C.M.C, beats cock-fighting.
Sj thank your pals.
'*' You knowed me, as a voung un. I was growed in the Ring.
You know how I cussed my stars in 1852, when they was all abusing
the C.M.C. I never wished mvself out of jug so much before : it
would have been all U. P. with Rad. Sykes then.
" You axe after mv views : natteral, I'm for a fair field and nc
favour. I take nothing from nobody. Let's all have a clear ring. JNAFOLEOJN b IHUjNDEK.
Perhaps there is some faults in the rules : but who's perfect ? I'm ; jT is said that Meyerbeer, in his new opera, produces his effect of
the triend of hamelioration, and the hantagonist of change. Thunder bv means of grape-shot being continually rolled backwards and
Do away with the Ring ! And what then ?—stabbing and forwards. It strikes us that Louis Napoleon produces his Thundei
gouarmg. If Mounseer hasn't got fists, what s that to bus? If \ mucn in the same way, He is continually rolling from one point to
Jonathan is weak m his lines, why, wuss for him! But what can ; another large quantities of ammunition, which make a terrific noise,
you expect out of a bowie-knife and a revolver ? Don't Jona-1 anc} frighten people into the belief that there is going to be a fearful
<^ie mf i storm. Europe has had enough of this thunderihsr nuisance, and we
ihere s the new rural Peelers. Aren't they enoue-h to ruin us ? wish that Master Louis, if he really intends being quiet, would
They'veknocked up the old tuns, in their career of splendid useful-! ieave his grape-shot and cannon-balls alone. Such materials may suit
ness. _ Who'll care for county boundaries now? I feared the change, the purposes of a composer like Meyerbeer, but are dangerous
as a citizen; but as one of the Fancy, more. How's a fight to be instruments hi the hands of such a celebrated discomposer as the
got through now ? Emperor gf the French.
[April 23, 1859.
Delightful Boy. "Oh! Look 'ere, Jim! Here's a Swell—let's Frighten 'is 'Orse ! "
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE CAMBRIDGE MILLING L Town and Gown rows have thrived of late prodigious. A cove may
CLUB on 11 as a fi°Pe™ S1?n- F raPs there am t much science shown id
. . ' , 'em; p'raps there is. Still it's something. A man as would try to
We have been requested to insert the followine correspondence:— separate 'em in real earnest—mark my words—would get his head
The Cambridge Chicken to Alick Hopeful. I broke o' both sides. Feeling thuswise, I have, as you may ha' noticed,
" Mr dear Alick, BarmveH, March 16, 1859. Jf^the Town in five rows last year. It,'s true we was over-matched ;
U q„„„ e a. l l c r\l ■ i nv. but never sav die. 1 ain t conceited, thoush there s some as is. 1 ve
• f ^ pMM r USJa?ts t0 put you up for Chmrman and Cham- , d addresses from Granthamj Hirchir,, and Newmarket Goose-clubs,
thou of the C.M.C. We know you well. But here s some County . { . yellow-bovS got by raffles in my honour,
members as thinks Jack Slasher the man. They haven't seen j on « j ^ fco spmn? -Spamni ain>t millmV but it.? something:
and it's my opinion that, as things bar, you won't get much milling
done among the swells without the gloves. In my own neighbourhood
I've done my best to promote sparring. And I don't regret it.
use your mauleys. Tip us a line to show the others,—something
spicy, mind : you're the boy for that.
" Ever yours devotedly,
" Master A. Hopeful." " The Chicken."
But talk o' sparring. What's the C.M.C. ? Why it's the nurse
o' sparring. To keep up the C.M.C. is to keep up the Ring, and
that's to keep up the honour of England. I'm your man.
"Once I had a chance that falls to few. I was bottle-holder to
Ben. Caunt in his fight with Bendigo. The kind confidence of my
principal intrusted me with the bottle, and I did not abuse it.
" Will this do for you, Chicken ? or shall I spice it stronger ?
" I am, yours eternally, Alick Hopeful."
" The Cambridge Chicken, 8fc. fyc."
[Reply)
"Dear Chicken, "Cambridge, March 17, 1859.
"Yours just received. I answer by return, both hample
and explicit. Speaking personally, you do me proud. To be
Champion of that hancient harena, the C.M.C, beats cock-fighting.
Sj thank your pals.
'*' You knowed me, as a voung un. I was growed in the Ring.
You know how I cussed my stars in 1852, when they was all abusing
the C.M.C. I never wished mvself out of jug so much before : it
would have been all U. P. with Rad. Sykes then.
" You axe after mv views : natteral, I'm for a fair field and nc
favour. I take nothing from nobody. Let's all have a clear ring. JNAFOLEOJN b IHUjNDEK.
Perhaps there is some faults in the rules : but who's perfect ? I'm ; jT is said that Meyerbeer, in his new opera, produces his effect of
the triend of hamelioration, and the hantagonist of change. Thunder bv means of grape-shot being continually rolled backwards and
Do away with the Ring ! And what then ?—stabbing and forwards. It strikes us that Louis Napoleon produces his Thundei
gouarmg. If Mounseer hasn't got fists, what s that to bus? If \ mucn in the same way, He is continually rolling from one point to
Jonathan is weak m his lines, why, wuss for him! But what can ; another large quantities of ammunition, which make a terrific noise,
you expect out of a bowie-knife and a revolver ? Don't Jona-1 anc} frighten people into the belief that there is going to be a fearful
<^ie mf i storm. Europe has had enough of this thunderihsr nuisance, and we
ihere s the new rural Peelers. Aren't they enoue-h to ruin us ? wish that Master Louis, if he really intends being quiet, would
They'veknocked up the old tuns, in their career of splendid useful-! ieave his grape-shot and cannon-balls alone. Such materials may suit
ness. _ Who'll care for county boundaries now? I feared the change, the purposes of a composer like Meyerbeer, but are dangerous
as a citizen; but as one of the Fancy, more. How's a fight to be instruments hi the hands of such a celebrated discomposer as the
got through now ? Emperor gf the French.