“Puff” on the Marquis.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 51, 8 October 1887, Page 4

“Puff” on the Marquis.

The noble blackleg ! The Marquis of Aileabury warned off the turf for life!

Serve the young blackguard right! He’s a regular lame duck !

I thought Aylesbury ducks were spotless ' Ha ha ' Not given to fowl play, eh ? Is the Marquis of Ailesbury a youngster ? Yes, only 24! So young yet so depraved ! Don't you think his chief fault is that he's been found out ?

I dare say there's something in that! There's any amount of swindling on the turf, among the tip-top swells too! Everybody knows that I Still, the Joekey Club more than chaster the welchert when they catch them! The Times considers that the Marquis should be excluded from the house of Commons! But supposing a Member of the House of Commons were caught running cunning, and warned off the Turf, he could’n't be excluded from the House for that, could he ? No, of course not! The thing's absurd! Nothing short of a felony would do that!

By the bye, isn't the Marquis of Aileabury that lunatic who used to drive about London in a costermonger’s donkey cart ? Yes, the same bad hat! Well, perhaps he's only mad ? There's too much method in his madness, when it takes the form of cheating on the Turf 1 The Times must be out of joint! The Marqnis of Ailesbnry happens to be in the House of Lords, and he can the excluded from there, no matter how big a sweep he may be! That’s one of the glorious privileges of the hereditary nobility 1 What’s the Times thinking of to make such a mistake?

Either it’s misgram, or else it refers to the New York Times ! The Yankees have the oddest notions about the Legislature and the aristocracy'