* This refers to an illustrated edition of the work.
"And if they go on breaking gages; and if the child, the most precious
luggidge of the Henglishman, is to be bundled about this year way,
why it won't be for want of warning, both from Professor Harris, the
Commission, and from
"My dear Mr. Punch's obeajent servant,
"JEAMES PLUSH."
THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN.
CHAPTER I.
"TRUTH IS STRANGE, STRANGER THAN FICTION."
I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public
I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I
leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--
MAJOR GOLIAH O'GRADY GAHAGAN, H.E.I.C.S.,
Commanding Battalion of Irregular Horse,
AHMEDNUGGAR.
Seeing, I say, this simple visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of
those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have been so frequent of
late. There has been no end to the blunders regarding this humble title
of mine, and the confusion thereby created. When I published my volume
of poems, for instance, the Morning Post newspaper remarked "that the
Lyrics of the Heart, by Miss Gahagan, may be ranked among the sweetest
flowrets of the present spring season." The Quarterly Review, commenting
upon my Observations on the "Pons Asinorum" (4to.
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