Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-10-01
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Subject OF Tournaments"

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Just when had thought. and hopeI Il,
Knight Errantry had received its qui.,,.
the hands of the ladies Of an ADJOINING No; !
borhood, who, it is understood gotupaTn.
nament and entertained gaping crowd =.
daring feats of hor>eman>nin, AMI M
Sam Patch, showed that some thin,. ,',,.
be done as well as others-wiih auy..
ing Lance the ring was taken, and =,
dance,-lo, the Bren,sville Tournau.,.
1859 electriiies the two continents. m. n
Journal celebrates it, and the London Pm
immortalizes it, the Dramu,i, Pr,,g,r \,
cluded. This shows that the age If a..
has not yet passed, and that as OF yor,
Large streams from little touLtsiu, dow
Tall oaks from little acornS grow.
A lady of my neighborhuod has shown =,
some lines taken from !'uarL which have,
cited my curiosity very much AS we'll as rb,,- :,
all those who have seen them; therefore ua..
anxious to see all W. PancL nav have ,sJ
about the Brentsville Tournamet.i. and .b,I
feel obliged to You if you will publish !, :"
your paper and thereby enable the o,.j
sense of the country 10 come a. VI PMS.
aid; and this ask rs citizen, and in ~.
name and behalf of Prince William
Prince William Co, Sept. -.
As Tournaments seem TO be all the ra,e
indeed almost every number Of your vain.
BILE paper either has notice Of a Tom.
nament to come of-or glowing ie,,rr.
ton of one that has passed. have thou.l.
1t might DE interesting 10 some of your real.
ers u know what is said OF them ''on tIs
other side Of the water" This may. hone
only cause laugh, and not as my friend J
III. Z. would say.
cause the boys To dig hole AMI ~ under"
Prince William Co., Sept %. nS,-
For the first time in its existence. Prime
William has attained a transatlantic fame
The Tournament at Brentsyille. which came
off the 18th Of August, has made its way
via the Home Journal, to the great London
Mocker, whose Rhymster has dccenieI upyr
our heads with scUrR thar threatens Il
wither. We went to sleep III peace, and
awake to find ourselves impalei in poetry.
and condemned TO an Immortality Of ridicl.
lousness. We have been suddenly arrested
in our Eighty career, and are now preserved
in Punch, and presented 10 the Public, a.
warning to all evil doors. Oar names have
become household words to Ladies sublime
and Lords hifalutin. We have no doubt they
have been spelled over and sneercd at by Roy.
al brats, and beef like Dukes, and corpulent
Duchesses have grinned horribly at our eI.
pusure Wherever the Britisher eats bull.
lock, there the paraphrase of our rencountcr
is going or has gone. The consciounes. flush.
es our face into as deep crimson as seemed
the ribbons some Of US wore ON the dread.
full day. Could we lay hands on Punch
we would hang him up by his nose un.
til he should consent to become a knIsl,
himself riding on his dog Toby. If any
of our friends shall heneelorth be So ra,h
as to invite US to partake OF an InnoI.
ious fluid, to which we had formerly some
prediction, we will consider the Insult IS
one only to be washed out by blood.
We desire to employ the small remnants
of our vitality, in warning the hplcs'
wights who aspire to become knights OF the
terrific doom which fate aud the London
Punch has reserved for those who eEdcayor
to revive medieval recoilcctlons. Other
tournaments are proposed in fatal ignorance
of the fell blow which is hurrying rs I" IN
untimely end. Unless these are stopped 1t
may be necessary To Inscrlbe on other tomb.
stones than ours, died of Punch. Our
supply OF the milk Of human kindness has
not been entirely curdled, and wcwlsh other
numskulls to live in unambitious stupidity,
after our heart has been broken by the hide
Gus rhymes Of the Chariyari. We do there
fore humbly petition that you transfer bod
!y the whole of the record of the Brent.
vile Tournament, a. the same rs contained IN
4 late number Of the London Punch, 70 the
columns Of the Gazette. and assure you that
by 30 doing you will cheer the close oI the
knightly existence Ut L. VI.
Prince William Co.. Sept. %.
From the London Panch September 10, 1882
A TOURNAMENT, 4. 5.
OF all ridiculous ostcns,
Especially for Yankee gents,
What more absurd than Tournaments
Yet, in America,
A snohbish. silly, vain display
or bogus tilt and sham tournay,
On this last AuguSis eighteenth day,
Came of a, Brentsrille, Va.
To view tb, idiotic scene,
A crowd assembled on green,
Where noon aud dinncrs hour between,
The males and females danced.
The meal brought dancing 10 stop,
They At. and drank each lit and drop,
And then they commenced the hop,
Until "Sir Knights" advanced.
Sir knights. a precious set Of Sirs
Who dubbed themselves and bought their 'lu'''
Copied their shields from Britishers,
Or did themselves invent.
| wish you had been there 70 see
The hash they made Of heraldry,
At that absurd fsstiyity,
They called Tournament
Such knights Of do" renowned Tor deei
Such names. R, P, W, R,
D., and F., but We need
Not mention any more.
OF Montgomery, Iyanhoe,
Of Marnion, Lochinvar, "a though
They felt their proper names too lO~,
The fancy names they bore.
knights we're there Of the Wood and the Ehs'''
nf IInkunwp KNIGHT tl,.ra M