The Diary of Cornelius Hump, Esq.: Dandiprat & Twangling Jack!

Monday 17 May 2010

Dandiprat & Twangling Jack!

February 21st 1761

"You Sir are a dandiprat and a twangling Jack!"

"Potbelly! Cudden! Fustilliarian!"

Mr. Tangle was screaming by this point...

"Goat-licker! Fopdoodle..."

Having imbibed a few too many measures of aqua vitae at the Angel we were what might be termed, 'potvaliant' as we staggered and swayed on our way homewards.

With his tattered green frockcoat, flapping shoe-buckle and lurching wig, one might readily mistake him for a lowly drazel . To think that this same creature authored such ground-breaking papers as, "Notable Norfolke Knockers", "In Defence of Conquest Denial" and "Antiquarian Articles and Pernickerty Disputations"!

We are over-cloyed indeed!

© Tangle & Hump, Peddlers of the Past

1 comment:

Dolores27 May 2010 at 10:43
Talent, pleasure and joy- what a rare combination!

I shall call again.

CAH
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Background

'The Ragged Society of Antiquarian Ramblers' has recently been bequeathed a unique archive, following the recent sad passing away of former member, Dorothea Tangle-Hump, R.S.A.R. .

This archival material consists of an extensive diary composed by Ms. Tangle-Hump's Eighteenth century ancestor, the notorious Cornelius Hump, Esq. . Ragged Ramblers members are currently engaged in the painstaking process of preserving and transcribing this unique and illuminating work, and it is this which we are able to share with you here...