The True Tel-El-Kebir

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 146, 2 June 1891, Page 4

The True Tel-El-Kebir

T?y 3rq> Adams. t ' ( ' Sir Gainit, he sez, 'Now then< } he " gez,-- hup and at 'em !' and we huptjed and give 'em sich a hatting us tu«y wou't foregit in a hurry. I see Sir Garmt hissel' kill- a Gypsheu, and drink It is blood 'cus he .was so thirsty, only be put sherhufc in tlie b t lood t > jnake it fizz. He sez tome,' Heva drop.i buy ?' I sez, 4 No' 7 hankee, Sir Garnit ; I'm Mue libbiug.' One (hap in our richuient wins a Hirehnfruftrom -Wales, aud because he sueez«d Sir Garmt sez, ' tJayuit 'im ;' but tbe surgint, he sez,' '.No, let, me have him for viviseshun,' or something, 1 fprgit the word But be cut him open while • alive to see if it was true ashe had ,a black heart, as a chap in the richmont, when he owed sixpence; to, had eaid. When he got to the canal it' " was No'full of camels, 'and 'osses, add * corpads. that we didn't like to drink the water. * Oh,' said Sir ,Garnit, * we'll soon alter that ;' and had a lot of red hot shells , thrown in the canal, till ihVT water bilel, ' and biled all the "camels and dead bosses. ' Now, my boys, '•he sez, • help yerselves to soup.' Andjivp did, and it wasn't bad. And about this berrying alive— it's quite troo.- I see" hundreds chucked in wot vras ' shoutiri g and jes ticklating as - theylcUouly layd down to have a sleep. ' Sir 1 Garnit says, 'Do you think we're/a goin' to stay, 'ere orl day a feelin' all their bally 'aits to see if they're stony dV ( d ? No ; chuck "the lot.irii'aud we /chucked 'em; and for & 'h,ole 'our after the^ ground ,was " •wrigglin' and legs, come out stickin'. - lip,; bufc, we ( chopped 'em ,'off short,, B l hd jt'hey didn't more , J out. Arid that's the bat'tle'of.Tel el-Kebir^ - as we called it. .tP.S.^r' There aint been a liar in our > jfainly fof over a hundred- years.