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due to the Little Sisters of the Poor for their excellent idea
of affording the poor fatherless and motherless children a
genuinely instructive treat. The viceregal houseparty which
included many wellknown ladies was chaperoned by Their
Excellencies to the most favourable positions on the grand-
stand while the picturesque foreign delegation known as
the Friends of the Emerald Isle was accommodated on a
tribune directly opposite. The delegation, present in full
force, consisted of Commendatore Bacibaci Beninoben-
one (the semiparalysed doyen of the party who had to be
assisted to his seat by the aid of a powerful steam crane),
Monsieur Pierrepaul Petitépatant, the Grandjoker Vladin-
mire Pokethankertscheff, the Archjoker Leopold Rudolph
von Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler, Countess Marha Virága
Kisászony Putrápesthi, Hiram Y. Bomboost, Count Athan-
atos Karamelopulos, Ali Baba Backsheesh Rahat Lokum
Effendi, Senor Hidalgo Caballero Don Pecadillo y Palabras
y Paternoster de la Malora de la Malaria, Hokopoko Ha-
rakiri, Hi Hung Chang, Olaf Kobberkeddelsen, Mynheer
Trik van Trumps, Pan Poleaxe Paddyrisky, Goosepond
Prhklstr Kratchinabritchisitch, Borus Hupinkoff, Herr
Hurhausdirektorpresident Hans Chuechli-Steuerli,
Nationalgymnasiummuseumsanatoriumandsuspensorium-
sordinar y privatdocentgenera lhistor yspecia lprofessord
octor Kriegfried Ueberallgemein. All the delegates without
exception expressed themselves in the strongest possible
heterogeneous terms concerning the nameless barbarity
which they had been called upon to witness. An animated
altercation (in which all took part) ensued among the F. O.