A GUARD-ROOM CONCERT,
A well-known fille de joie, wlio was {( run in" the other night, made the lock-up and guardroom jocund with melody. She has an excellent voice and a musical taste, about the only two re- ' deemable qualities. After humming " Here in cool grot," "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble ,halls," and "My lodging's on the cold ground," she slid on to the sentimental, " Ees't thy weary head upon this . breast." It failed, however, to "fetch" the acting turnkey (Constable Walker) y who couldn't see it. As that active and intelligent officer has the military port of an ex-Guards-man, and gives a popular but mistaken impression, that he " has swallowed a ramrod," she dexterously substituted " He wore a collar round his neck, La cle cUtfi, la cle chili !** The nomenclature of songs is now a forbidden, subject in the guard-room.
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Observer, Volume IV, Issue 92, 17 June 1882, Page 211
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142A GUARD-ROOM CONCERT, Observer, Volume IV, Issue 92, 17 June 1882, Page 211
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