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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review Capping Carnival 1921

Caste of Characters

Caste of Characters.

The Great i am (poet, painter, sculptor, musician, playwright and philosopher) A. C. Mazengarb

"Poor old Yorick. 'e was a good old cove."

— Shakespeare (from memory)

Alf Hill (of the Lower Rut) R. Gapes

";I would rather hear a dog when he bayed at the moon than this scrape on the belly of a kitten."

— Maxims—of Martin-Smith.

Chopin (a lost soul) F. Warner

"A wandering ministrel I........."

—Mr. J.J. Sullivan.

Verbrughen (a genius, Australian variety) W. Pringle

"Semitones and sodas! Fiddles and Fizz!

They put us in carriages and treated us

like a travelling circus."

—Extracts from letter to Bernard Page.

Wagner (a composer) V. Ross

"His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking."

—Rupert Brooke.

Theo. Tresize (A Terpsichorean treat) A. Free

"Beautiful star with the crimson mouth,

Oh moon with the brows of gold."

—Oscar Wilde.

Charles Wilson (a newspaper scribe) L. A. Riddell

"Give a man a pipe he can't smoke.

Give a man a meal he can't eat;

And his home he'll fright with his language bright,

Though the room be dull and neat."

—Stodart Walker

Siegfried Eicrelbaum (A Swiss milk chocolate) C. G. Kirk

"And since he's jolly company and knows

what good fare means,.

"Unless you give him Bacon you mustn't

give him beans."

—G. K. Chesterton.

Frank Morton (a wolf-scarer, Prince of Petone) B. Egley

"What can such needy wretches do but die

Standing against the purposes of Kings "

—John Masefield.

Thomas Bracken (a hayseed) C. Moss

"What will the harvest be"

—Psalm OVI.

Zora Cross (a Christian) Miss M. Milesi

"You loved me and you loved mo not,

A little, much, and overmuch."

—C. A. Swinburne

Oscar Wilde (a fleur-de-lys)

He picks from our platters the plums for the puddings, he peddles in the provinces.

—James McNeil Whistler.

Fraulein Von Imit (the Kaiser's daughter). Miss D. Bailey

"Methinks she is a comely frau

Getting her trousseau God know's how."

—"Sayings of Walter Sheat."