BURIAL OF A CLOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 601, 22 October 1880, Page 2

BURIAL OF A CLOWN.

(From the Court Journal, May 24). A clown was, buried afc .Finchley' ac-; , cording to his directions. First in the funeral procession rode the ring-leader, leading four dames de la cirque, in costume, These ladies were followed by th#

bounding brothers, the sword-a wallowors, the saltim-banques, the bare-backed riders, and other male performers. Then • came a dwarf carrying a black flag, and after him the Barbary ape Jacko, on a Shetland pony. Jacko was in a suit of sables, and his steed was also decked-in the trappings and the suits of woe, The coffin was borne on an open bier, and on the plate, where the Royal coronet, should be, were the motley garments of the' -•. clown. Two clown colleagues the hearse, but if they'followed in the position of chief mourners their garb was 1 certainly not in keeping with their place, for they were chalked, ochred, and dressed as if for performance. The strange cavalcade was wound up by the part of the circus band in one of the )•< gaudy professional carriages, They played ; "/r such airs as " Go- Where Glory Waits • Thee," "Down Among the Dead Men," , V " In Some Far Sultry Clime," and other M morceaux selected by their dead At the cemetery the last Billy Walton were laid in the when the daisy quilt was him, eacli his turned a summersault place, and with that the remaq^^^^^^^|