So Very English.
Her Majesty witnessed on Saturday afternoon a performance given in the Home Park of Windsor Castle, opposite the East Terrace, by Colonel Cody's Wild West Troupe. The program included all the special feats of the American Cowboys, the Red Indians, Mexicans, Cossacks, and Gauchos.—Daily Telegraph.
O would that I a German were
Who potentates could toady!
I'd like to be a dancing bear,
Or a Yankee Colonel Cody.
I own no foreign Hippodrome,
So can't get on at all;
Therefore to me no presents come,
Not e'en an Indian shawl.
I'd almost be a canny Scot,
With instincts Bacchanalian;
But he who the best chance has got
Is the interesting alien.
The Briton's rôle might suit old Ceorge,
That Hanoverian skittish ;
I vow it raises quite my gorge
To think that I am British!
Title: So Very English
Periodical: The Star
Source: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Collection, MS6, MS6.3778.065.07 (1892 London)
Date: June 28, 1892
Topics: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain
Keywords: American Indians Britons Command performances Cossacks Cowboys Exhibitions Gauchos Germans Indians of North America Mexicans Poetry Scots Scrapbooks Traveling exhibitions Windsor Castle
People: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Places: Earl's Court (London, England) London (England)
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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