Sunday 25 October 2015

HENRY TOLLEMACHE ESQ. M.P. AND SIR W. H. HORNBY BART. M.P.



If these gentlemen are as bold and impetuous in the House of Commons as they ever were in the hunting field, they would indeed make things hum. They are on the same side of the House, so they cannot be jealous indeed, nothing is more abhorrent from their nature but a generous emulation is pretty evident. I venture to assert that timber, even in the form of painted railway gates, will stop neither, nor anything else reasonably possible.

NATHANIEL COOKE ESQ.



(Apparently a favourite subject with Frank) 
 
Elsewhere called " BUTCHER BILL "

A pretty picture, full of poetry, especially as shown in the dress of the rider and the joints of his quadruped. Of him we speak on another page.


COLONEL THOS. MARSHALL C.B.


A bold rider on a bold horse. Both mean business, differing only in opinion as to the ace each would prefer. One hopes no evil result may be the consequence.

Saturday 24 October 2015

THE REV. W. G. ARMITSTEAD


The Editor here makes a present of himself as a humble victim on the shrine of his friend's satire, and, in the famous but mysterious words of Jaques in As you Like It, "hereby hangs a tale"

THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK

Pastor
REV. J. R. ARMITSTEAD

Flock
MRS. BOLTON LITTLEDALE, MISS MAY ROYDS, MRS. MARSHALL

One cannot but admire the natural way in which our Artist has provided simple and easy egress and change of pasture for The Flock, at the further end of the field; not that its fair members were averse or unable, on occasion, to make or find a way for themselves over hill, over dale, thro' bush, thro' briar." 

Indeed I call to mind some fugitive lines bearing on the subject, which ran somehow thus;

"Who is this like a swallow that skims o'er the brook,
With demeanour so modest, and downcast her look?
No wonder she waits for no lead from the Kirk,
For it is Mrs, Marshall and mounted on Chirk! 

If explanation is needed, I would mention that  “Chirk” was a good horse often ridden by Mrs. Marshall, and always with the downcast pose of neck and head so truly presented in the picture.