London Nimrod (Newspaper) - December 23, 1827, London, Middlesex WITH THE NEWS OF THE A OP REALt AND HUMOUR DEC Ill PRICE NEW TO ALL THE A WAKE TN THE BY ODDS OR 3 TO As nice a little turnup as we have lately took place on Monday morning in opposite to the between three and a man named employed in the manufactory of of The three knights of the marrowbones and cleavers having taken it into their noddles to call Joey a thun dering horse jockey looking son of which no of could think of sitting down quietly Joey com right and and at one the three valiant heroes set on Joey at he in about ten to give them the completest hiding ever men and such a belly full of monkeys that more thumps than that they were glad to skulk off to a neighbouring public to drown the reflection of their de feat in heavy Fair is a jewel and we always rejoice to see drunken potvaliant cowards their and justly out by a man of The main of Chickens on Monday and Tuesday at Bain terminated as First Main Byes Main Byes a Main Byes Second 1 I Main 1 Byes 3 On Tuesday a match took place between two at Acton for a to walk one hundred yards and then run one hundred yards The match decided in farour of beating his by 20 yards doing the distance of walking backwards in 22 and running his 100 yards in 11 33 Betting at 5 to t On Wednesday Hutchinson the pedestrian in the Islington for a wager of to pick up 100 at a time tlie stones to be placed at a yard distant from each and jmt them into a hat stationed atthe place V until the was distance to be run in this undertaking it can be exclusive of the exertion in stooping for every five miles and a and two hundred avid odd yards and the al lowed was forty five The pedestrian proceeded on his task in a cool and won his match by four FOOT race of 200 for took place on Thursday last at between George the Staffordshire and Hall 5 yards at After an excellent race Hall won by two completed the distance in 21 Thursday morning a young man named undertook to walk round the railings of Jamess in fifteen trian started from opposite the Horse and although he walked at a pretty sharp ultimately lost the match by one minute and four wealthy and To visit Clubhouse iii from all To Plutus Ive built me a and I call it one Fit to receive even legs of the Come to my to please Come when the night whispers Come when your your creditors tease Come to my hell for a little Ive a mansion close by Where your peccadilloes may pass and DC not known It stands in and J need not tell It breathes the court and it has all the No ye game pursue your propensity At or in Hells auspicious Heres that has such immensity Of fashion and the Ive built ye a mansion in youll Not since men of stygh fashion frequent But something thats rather of Greek Of a very appearance I meant Pass thro my me is a Where the Doctrine oi many books will confess it To the left is a e all with play weary May and reflect oH laws of Then my staircase ascend not your nor Seems depending On things rff a very rich Pass to the saloon of Where all with ample freeze Yond this to my each member Where youre treated paste composition or other And such with BO many plate That the in one turn Here shall no hazard but pleasant And rouge wine charm your palate in If tis your but to beat ye In though no in will Here youll find men of rank and With day and From beau alrett gay on Some lawyers that understand clearly Then all ye wealthy to greet ye Youll find that irt thing neatly I have with much much polish will treat Bone arid notes sounding Then come from your you domesticate Come when the dull oppresses all the charms of to investigate Come and receive civil THE IN ALL HIS BY Be ye ever of spleen or Mighty Punch can enliven your spirits with Not honest Jack nor rum Can produce half the fun of For Ta hearty bind them all in a Not an actor among like Signior There is something so indescribably droll about the paraphernalia of we aje irresistibly compelled to acknowledge the superiority of the Roscius over the histrionic corps of mere flesh and The eccentricity of this immortal his foreign funny the whim and strange conceit exhibited in his wooden the tous and the unrestricted laugh he affords to com bine to make Punch the most popular performer in the Of Italian he has been so long domiciled in that he may npw be considered as naturalized by common con 1 much doubt if a more serious misfortune 1 removal or suppression of Punch and drolleries it indeed be a national protect to from such a terrible aiq to admit tht invariably patronise y the of all the loose copper in our We love ip and Punch never fails to produce that desirable relaxation of the We love a comedy better than a because it makes us laugh and next to good a good laugh is most Then we love a better a because lhat is more provokingly or as the critics have a good pantomime beats comedy and farce hollow theres such lots of fun and shouts of laughter from the beginning to the But Punch ellipses all and panto For bursts of Punch is your true If any man will tell us that possesses or the mellow affections of and that ha can pass Punch byr Nor cast look then do we pronounce that man to be ot impenetrable wise for too phlegmatic for and too crabbed for In for a positive a an embodied or a there is no doubt He bin the greatest wight on an miles v j started at one oclock on from the Golden Lane to the Cross Keys and continued his to and i A from the same walking backwards every other until within a minute and a half before one oclock on when he completed his ns he walked two more miles than the in consequence of a blunder in the He has en gaged to do in his of a wonderful on Mon day the Kentish on Tuesday gigantic task of walking 1200 miles in 1200 successive The Cumberland fox recruited by drafts from the and Raby threw on the 12th at where they found which they ran into before he could clear the Scarcely was he eaten up before another fox broke and the hounds being laid on kept it up at a slashing pace over Aspatria new Waver Percy Pow and over the to being much he went to ground in the hollow of a limestone 11 miles distant from where he This brilliant chase was run in 53 The celebrated stallion by Jolm out of Miss Whip fcy tiled at oa the aged Vj Ned Baldwin ine the extremely the weather on Wednesday had to boast a tidy sprinkling of At Bunns bene last the men to in support of each but on this forgotten their own of nt The most woMb witnessing were those between Jem Burn and and Baldwin and A Cambridge amateur attempted a against but it was no Jem Raines mW Pel Gardener excited but little interest and a and who lately tought still if returned thanks for the kind pa tronage he kad and ftt departed evidently much FIGHT Savage and Pai Stockman and near March and ill a to come off to in Old and we bare of public Wednesday evening at a side was deposited for a on 15th Jem Burn has taken the have no doubt will receive a fair AND PADDY FLY Jem the Norfolk match between the above for The Marquess of Exeter has Mountebank of of for gave ftr the about only v Jones on Monday for a wager of 500 gallop tuff and drive the same m three Her was then to trot liis gallop him drive him in harness three and then drive both horses In harness three making in the whole 21 in and a It was done on a piece of on Bath and won seconds to Betting 5 to i on Tuesday a galloping match toot place between Swaine and for 300 The terms of the match to gallop twelve miles and the hacked for hundred to do the distance in 10 Betting wats 9 to 4 against The match took place on a piece upon the Bath and was decided m favour of if ho did it in 38 minutes 56 beating adversary by minutes 20 SAIB OF following the property of Sir for on Monday at Lightnings by out of in at gs at 390 Spring 800 ga bought in at 240 gs Sampson sold for A cn s Toss 99 sol s and bay mare bought in at SO bj private contract for 100 Sandy well Coursing Match was held on Monday and Tuesday last on the estate of Walter Lawrence of Sandy well near this for a splendid Silver Cup given by that gentle An immense concourse ot spectators assembled to witness the from the amusement afforded last the contest was expected to be very Sixteen leash of the best greyhounds in this part of the country were and exhibited some of the most superior running ever Several of the courses were exceedingly well contested and the match for the cup was uncommonly chiefly between do of ana one belonging to of this town and was finally determined in favour of
