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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
[August 29, 1874.
’ARRY’S MARK.
0 where I will, about
my name I guess I
leave no doubt.
’Arry ’Iggins on his
’oliday he lets ’em
know he’s out;
Wherever there’s a
relic, or a ruin to
be found,
’Arry ’Iggins he is
down on it, of that
you may he bound!
On each statue, on
each wall and roof
of buildin’s known
to fame,
When there’s nobody
a lookin’, I always !
cuts my name.
Which it likewise is
my custom, call it
right, or call it
wrong,
When I goes as a
Cook s tourist about
the Continong.
Seek Tintern, Melrose, Netley, and I ’ll be hound you ’ll see
Memorials of the visits they’ve been honoured with by me.
Unto Kenilworth’s old Castle, or to Carisbrooke’s repair;
And I bet you ’ll soon discover ’Arry’s name cut full and fair!
On Ston’enge’s rummy pillars you’ve hut to cast a squint
For to find my neat A-R-R-Y carved in conspicuous print.
’Aery’s name will live for ever, ’Arry’s mark by ’Arry’s ’and
Stands out on all the monuments of ’Arry’s native land!
REGULATIONS FOR THE JERSEY MILITIA.
Horse Guards, Intelligence Department,
General Order. 85, Fleet Street, August 22, 1874.
Her Majesty’s Government having decided (as announced in the
House of Commons on the last day of the Session) to refuse the
customary grant for the Jersey Militia, unless that force is put in a
proper state of efficiency, the following regulations are to be ob-
served by Officers commanding the Jersey Militia. It must, how-
ever, he understood that these regulations, having been drawn up
to meet the present exigencies of the case, will be liable to alteration
and modification as the force increases in numbers and efficiency.
1. The proportionate numbers of Officers and Men should be so
regulated that the number of Officers should in no case exceed that
of Privates.
2. Strong Regiments should be equalised so that there should he
only three Privates to each Officer retained on the regimental books.
The remainder should be draughted to weaker regiments, so that
their establishments may be completed.
3. It having been considered desirable for the present to appoint
no Militia Officer to a grade senior to that of Lieutenant-Colonel,
applications for the baton of Field-Marshal can no longer be received
by this Department.
4. Regiments having Regimental Bands should (when feasible)
maintain an establishment of two musicians, of which the Drum or
Bugle Major may be one.
5. A Sergeant-Major (when harnessed to the regimental water-
cart) should never be required to carry more than one of the Colours.
6. Annexed to this Circular are forms of requisition for Arms,
which should be properly filled and returned to this Department as
quickly as possible. Until further orders, twelve rifles and eighteen
bayonets will be allowed to every Private, so that the Estimates
may be adjusted to the satisfaction of the Public.
7. Until the Regiments are recruited to their full strength, squares
may he formed in circles, according to the rules laid down in the
old Irish Field Exercises, Part II., edition of 1614, a copy of which
work is enclosed for the information of Officers commanding batta-
lions of Infantry.
8. In cases where Regiments are weak, a prisoner may be used as
a sentry to guard his own cell, but this practice is only to be resorted
to on occasions of emergency, and when an outbreak is imminent
from within. At other times the cells will be left unguarded.
J-bis regulation will also be found in the Irish Drill-Book, to which
reference has already been made.
9. Squads should he drilled in French or English according to the
prevalent language of the men. Recruits who can speak neither
French nor English should he draughted into the Band, and should
be frequently encouraged by their Officers to express their senti-
ments on the trombone, while they are engaged in learning the
language regimentally in use. By this means a thorough mastery
of the instrument specified will be gradually attained.
10. Lastly, Officers commanding Regiments are warned against
permitting any Company Drill or other exercise taking place on the
sands opposite France, as such manoeuvres, executed by such
soldiers, would be calculated to cause alarm in the ranks of the
French Army, with whom it is advisable that the inhabitants of
Jersey should remain on terms of cordial friendship.
By Order,
Adjt.-General.
BASE-BALL IN THE VERNACULAR.
Worlton, Nr. Ipsidge, Suffolk,
August, 1874.
Dear oad Poonch,
What fules you Lundoners be! You’re alius ridy to
swaller any thing a furrenner hoads afore yar jaw. The newest
thing I see in the peapers is that the hool country be a gooin to luze
thar wits about the game o’ base hall.
I’m night furty year oad, and I ha’ plaed base ball, man and boy,
for more un thirtty-five year, as any o’ yar folks up there could hev
sen if tha’d ha come to our village—or fur the matter o’ that, to
furty other villages hereabouts—any evenin’ a summer time. I ’ll
try and tell yow the wai we plae base ball.
We maake the base at the oad Church wall, and chuze sides, then
we toss for In or Out; them ut git out stop outside the base-
bounds, and hev to field, same as in cricket, and them ut get in
stop in and take ball. Then the pitcher puts his men in the field
where he chuzes, and then delivers the ball to fnst man in base.
If he doant hit it wi his stick or his hand, and the ketcher
behind him ketch it, he is out, and a dead man for t’ innings, but if
he hit, he must run like t’ oad un to fust bounds, which in our
place is t’ corner o’ public-house wall (the Feathers), and if the
next man hit the ball, the fust man runs nation hard to ’tother end
o’ public-house wall, and second man runs to where he left, and so
on, to as many hounds but one, as there are men to the innard side.
If the field men ketch the ball, the fellar ut struck it is out, same
as in cricket.
Blarm me if I doant think them there Yankees hev ben down here
and larnt the game, jest to gull yow Cockneys wi’, or else some
Suffolk emmergrunts ha’ goon and larnt them Merricans the game,
and thay’re a lettin’ yow hev it second-hand. Carnt you get ’em to
come and plae agin our village ?—I think thar’d git thar match.
Yours to command,
Same. Plant,
Cow-parstur’ farm,
Worlton, near Ipsidge, Suffolk.
P.S.—We eent got much munney, but we’ll plae um for harf a
gallon, all round, o’ Cobbold’s best Bright-eye, jest to let ’em know
we doant want folks to come thousans o’ miles to larn us what our
granfarthers larnt our farthers, and thae we.
How is it none o’ yar young fellars who come to Fillixter a summer
times doant tell the folks about base ball ?
Bust and blarm my skin if I eent riled to see such a fuss made
about nought.
“PECULIAR PEOPLE.”
People who prefer London to the country at this season of the
year.
People who go to Margate and Ilfracombe in the face of the
Report of the Registrar-General.
People who travel by Excursion Trains.
People who emigrate to a “ Free Country,” and stay there.
People who believe in Spiritualism.
People who are still in doubt about the identity of Arthur
Orton.
People who object to the removal of Temple Bar.
People who support the Brentford Guardians.
People who serenade political prisoners in boats.
People who give largesse to German bands and organ-grinders.
People who devote days to the discovery of answers to acrostics.
And (most “peculiar” of all) people who do not read Punch.
Happily for the welfare of the world, this last class is all but extinct.
A Casual Acquaintance.—The Dwarf “Brummy.”
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
[August 29, 1874.
’ARRY’S MARK.
0 where I will, about
my name I guess I
leave no doubt.
’Arry ’Iggins on his
’oliday he lets ’em
know he’s out;
Wherever there’s a
relic, or a ruin to
be found,
’Arry ’Iggins he is
down on it, of that
you may he bound!
On each statue, on
each wall and roof
of buildin’s known
to fame,
When there’s nobody
a lookin’, I always !
cuts my name.
Which it likewise is
my custom, call it
right, or call it
wrong,
When I goes as a
Cook s tourist about
the Continong.
Seek Tintern, Melrose, Netley, and I ’ll be hound you ’ll see
Memorials of the visits they’ve been honoured with by me.
Unto Kenilworth’s old Castle, or to Carisbrooke’s repair;
And I bet you ’ll soon discover ’Arry’s name cut full and fair!
On Ston’enge’s rummy pillars you’ve hut to cast a squint
For to find my neat A-R-R-Y carved in conspicuous print.
’Aery’s name will live for ever, ’Arry’s mark by ’Arry’s ’and
Stands out on all the monuments of ’Arry’s native land!
REGULATIONS FOR THE JERSEY MILITIA.
Horse Guards, Intelligence Department,
General Order. 85, Fleet Street, August 22, 1874.
Her Majesty’s Government having decided (as announced in the
House of Commons on the last day of the Session) to refuse the
customary grant for the Jersey Militia, unless that force is put in a
proper state of efficiency, the following regulations are to be ob-
served by Officers commanding the Jersey Militia. It must, how-
ever, he understood that these regulations, having been drawn up
to meet the present exigencies of the case, will be liable to alteration
and modification as the force increases in numbers and efficiency.
1. The proportionate numbers of Officers and Men should be so
regulated that the number of Officers should in no case exceed that
of Privates.
2. Strong Regiments should be equalised so that there should he
only three Privates to each Officer retained on the regimental books.
The remainder should be draughted to weaker regiments, so that
their establishments may be completed.
3. It having been considered desirable for the present to appoint
no Militia Officer to a grade senior to that of Lieutenant-Colonel,
applications for the baton of Field-Marshal can no longer be received
by this Department.
4. Regiments having Regimental Bands should (when feasible)
maintain an establishment of two musicians, of which the Drum or
Bugle Major may be one.
5. A Sergeant-Major (when harnessed to the regimental water-
cart) should never be required to carry more than one of the Colours.
6. Annexed to this Circular are forms of requisition for Arms,
which should be properly filled and returned to this Department as
quickly as possible. Until further orders, twelve rifles and eighteen
bayonets will be allowed to every Private, so that the Estimates
may be adjusted to the satisfaction of the Public.
7. Until the Regiments are recruited to their full strength, squares
may he formed in circles, according to the rules laid down in the
old Irish Field Exercises, Part II., edition of 1614, a copy of which
work is enclosed for the information of Officers commanding batta-
lions of Infantry.
8. In cases where Regiments are weak, a prisoner may be used as
a sentry to guard his own cell, but this practice is only to be resorted
to on occasions of emergency, and when an outbreak is imminent
from within. At other times the cells will be left unguarded.
J-bis regulation will also be found in the Irish Drill-Book, to which
reference has already been made.
9. Squads should he drilled in French or English according to the
prevalent language of the men. Recruits who can speak neither
French nor English should he draughted into the Band, and should
be frequently encouraged by their Officers to express their senti-
ments on the trombone, while they are engaged in learning the
language regimentally in use. By this means a thorough mastery
of the instrument specified will be gradually attained.
10. Lastly, Officers commanding Regiments are warned against
permitting any Company Drill or other exercise taking place on the
sands opposite France, as such manoeuvres, executed by such
soldiers, would be calculated to cause alarm in the ranks of the
French Army, with whom it is advisable that the inhabitants of
Jersey should remain on terms of cordial friendship.
By Order,
Adjt.-General.
BASE-BALL IN THE VERNACULAR.
Worlton, Nr. Ipsidge, Suffolk,
August, 1874.
Dear oad Poonch,
What fules you Lundoners be! You’re alius ridy to
swaller any thing a furrenner hoads afore yar jaw. The newest
thing I see in the peapers is that the hool country be a gooin to luze
thar wits about the game o’ base hall.
I’m night furty year oad, and I ha’ plaed base ball, man and boy,
for more un thirtty-five year, as any o’ yar folks up there could hev
sen if tha’d ha come to our village—or fur the matter o’ that, to
furty other villages hereabouts—any evenin’ a summer time. I ’ll
try and tell yow the wai we plae base ball.
We maake the base at the oad Church wall, and chuze sides, then
we toss for In or Out; them ut git out stop outside the base-
bounds, and hev to field, same as in cricket, and them ut get in
stop in and take ball. Then the pitcher puts his men in the field
where he chuzes, and then delivers the ball to fnst man in base.
If he doant hit it wi his stick or his hand, and the ketcher
behind him ketch it, he is out, and a dead man for t’ innings, but if
he hit, he must run like t’ oad un to fust bounds, which in our
place is t’ corner o’ public-house wall (the Feathers), and if the
next man hit the ball, the fust man runs nation hard to ’tother end
o’ public-house wall, and second man runs to where he left, and so
on, to as many hounds but one, as there are men to the innard side.
If the field men ketch the ball, the fellar ut struck it is out, same
as in cricket.
Blarm me if I doant think them there Yankees hev ben down here
and larnt the game, jest to gull yow Cockneys wi’, or else some
Suffolk emmergrunts ha’ goon and larnt them Merricans the game,
and thay’re a lettin’ yow hev it second-hand. Carnt you get ’em to
come and plae agin our village ?—I think thar’d git thar match.
Yours to command,
Same. Plant,
Cow-parstur’ farm,
Worlton, near Ipsidge, Suffolk.
P.S.—We eent got much munney, but we’ll plae um for harf a
gallon, all round, o’ Cobbold’s best Bright-eye, jest to let ’em know
we doant want folks to come thousans o’ miles to larn us what our
granfarthers larnt our farthers, and thae we.
How is it none o’ yar young fellars who come to Fillixter a summer
times doant tell the folks about base ball ?
Bust and blarm my skin if I eent riled to see such a fuss made
about nought.
“PECULIAR PEOPLE.”
People who prefer London to the country at this season of the
year.
People who go to Margate and Ilfracombe in the face of the
Report of the Registrar-General.
People who travel by Excursion Trains.
People who emigrate to a “ Free Country,” and stay there.
People who believe in Spiritualism.
People who are still in doubt about the identity of Arthur
Orton.
People who object to the removal of Temple Bar.
People who support the Brentford Guardians.
People who serenade political prisoners in boats.
People who give largesse to German bands and organ-grinders.
People who devote days to the discovery of answers to acrostics.
And (most “peculiar” of all) people who do not read Punch.
Happily for the welfare of the world, this last class is all but extinct.
A Casual Acquaintance.—The Dwarf “Brummy.”