MARION SAMBOURNE’S DIARY 1910 Notes in front of diary: Good stories: during Election Jan, a man amongst audience began shouting at speaker “Rot”, not getting his attention he shouted “Pig, Pig”. The speaker at last exasperated said “Will the gentleman who keeps shouting his name kindly sit down.” Miss Neave told me a poor woman got into an omnibus followed by a little boy who had a chamber! on his head stuck on it & a Glengarry cap on the top of it. The woman addressing the people on Omnibus said pointing to the boy’s head “That’s what comes of playing at soldiers & putting on is ‘ed what ort to be under the bed” & as each fresh person got into omnibus she repeated this. On reaching St George’s Hospital she took the boy by the handle of porcelain & said “And now we’ve come ‘ere to ‘ave it ‘acked off!” Ld K(illeg) story “Is your master in?” He is Sir. “Can I see him?” Man servant, “You can Sir. “Can I go up to him?” You can Sir. “Can he come down to me?” He cannot Sir! “Why if I can go up to him cannot he come down to me?” He’s dead Sir! Small child taken by father to see Buckingham Palace & crowd collected just after the death of King Edward VII. Seeing all blinds down asked why. Father explained because the King had died there. “Then had not he a good doctor?” Mrs du Maurier’s grandson of 4 having smashed a water bottle in a passion when visiting her was told to tell his Grannie. He went to her & said “I’m sorry to say I broke the water bottle in my room, meaning to!” Little Oliver, 6, after seeing boy scouts & hearing their goal of one good action a day etc said “I am a Scout & am going to do a kind action today” Who to? “To myself.” In large brown dress box No 1 with Antoinette, May 1910. Great fur coat Fur cap Seal skin cape Mole set & hat Sable set Brown velvet skirt & bodice Blk velvet skirt bodice & cape. Top. Green cloth skirt bodice & coat. Brown tailor made skirt & coat Man hailed cab “Drive me to Hill St”. “What number sir?” “ Oh I’ve forgotten the number but you’ll see it on the door!” G. Boehm. Mr E. Vowel died. Friend to another, “Do you see the Vowel is dead?” “Arn’t you glad it isn’t you or I?” Canon May. Latin inscription on tomb in old churchyard, translation “The fisher had fallen into the Dead Sea.” His name was Fisher. Canon May.
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