The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 300: what you’re looking at

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THE STEAM PACKET, 227 ago hinted, to my good friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, may i be d— dif I'd even give you an introduction to the Clerk of the Kitchen or the Royal Sweep. I always thought there was ‘ gallows’ written on your face; andI’d any time wager a Taglioni against a new hat that you ‘Il dance upon nothing yet before you ’ve done.”’ When this comforting discourse was concluded, the light arrived, and Mr. Rumtutch proceeded to change his linen, while Captain Pen- tonville drew up a complete revocation of the rebellious proclamation, and a denunciation of the other parties thereto as the real ringleaders in the insurrectionary movement. This paper Mr. Rumiutch signed, and the three loyalist conquerors attested it as witnesses, Mr. Gibbins writing his name in bold letters of the same size as the large hand ina boy’s copy-book, declaring, at the time, ‘‘ that he did so to perwent any mistake in a dokiment of such wery fust-rate importance.’’ The matter being thus settled, Captain Pentonville, Mr. Buckram, and Mr. Gibbins withdrew in triumph, leaving Mr. Rumtutch to settle him- self to slumber as well as he could in a bed flooded with water, and amidst the painful reflections caused by blighted ambition and ruined. prospects. } At seven o’clock on the following morning Mr. Pifpaf was attended by his plenipotentiaries, Captain Pentonville and the soz-disant Lord Noodleton ; and the following proclamation was hastily drawn up: — ‘“‘PIFPAF, CHAIRMAN. “WHEREAS certain seditious, evil-disposed, malicious, and disor- derly persons, not having the fear of disgrace and dishonour before their eyes, have thought proper to issue a vile, scandalous, malignant, base, and scurrilous proclamation, tending to bring the high office of Chairman of the Honourable and Independent Order of Luminaries into disrepute, and to remove from that office Timothy Pifpaf, by force, and other foul, scandalous, dishonest, unlawful, and derogatory — means: this is to give notice that measures have been taken to sup- press this unparalleled conduct, and to provide against its recurrence. And be it moreover understood, that, should any Luminaries connive, conspire, meet, assemble, unite, combine, associate, or collect for such unlawful purposes in future, they will be punished by expulsion, and their names handed down to the execration of all posterity. ‘‘LONG LIFE TO PIFPAF!” - This proclamation was immediately posted up in the éable-d’héte room, and the sensation it produced was wondrous. Those gentlemen q 2 GomiGbooks (E(0)