56 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



The article is not directly illustrated, but is 

 headed with a fine woodcut of a clever drawing 

 of a pigeon in flight, by Harrison Weir ; while 

 the frontispiece to the Papers is a stage and 

 stagey group of caricatured " Savages," among 

 whom Tegetmeier, the " pigeonist," appears with 

 grave aspect and a pigeon balanced on his bald 

 pate. In his own copy of the famous (and now 

 scarce) Savage Club Papers for 1867, which he 

 gave me, he had inserted a loose-leaf picture 

 of an apple woman, with her tray of fruit 

 depending by a cord from her waist, as described 

 in the article. This is entitled " The Coster- 

 Girl," from a " daguerreotype " by Beard, and 

 is engraved by E. Whimper. As it so aptly 

 illustrates the unintentional cause of the young 

 fancier losing his " First Pigeon Race," and as 

 it represents a type of London character that has 

 practically disappeared, I give a reproduction 

 of this interesting old print, as also one of 

 the frontispiece to the Savage Club Papers 

 referred to. 



Though chronologically out of order, I cannot 

 refrain from making here another reference to 

 the " pigeonist " of the Savage Club, if only to 

 notice a sketch of him and its accompanying 

 description, by his old friend and Brother- 

 Savage, Wallis Mackay, when on an excursion 

 which the Club made to Boulogne in the year 

 1881. It appeared in Society for July 23rd, 1881, 



