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to represent literature and the arts." This is 

 the occasion whereon Wallis Mackay depicted the 

 old pigeon-fancier despatching one of his birds 

 with the news that the party had " sighted the 

 coast of France." 



Although I do not find that the Savage Club 

 gave many or any other big benefit performances 

 as a body, groups of members sometimes assisted 

 at amateur " shows " for the benefit of relatives 

 either of " Savages " or their friends. Thus, 

 after the death (November, 1866) of Paul Gray, 

 the talented young artist who drew the illustra- 

 tions for Kingsley's Hereward the Wake, and a 

 " Savage " of whom it was said " probably no 

 other member had been quite so well beloved," 

 a benefit matinee was given at the Haymarket 

 Theatre on July 6th, 1867, for his widowed 

 mother. Grav had been one of the chief illus- 

 trators of Fun, and the piece performed was 

 written by contributors to that paper, among 

 whom probably, and in the caste certainly, were 

 several " Savages," one of them being Teget- 

 meier. The burlesque was entitled " Robinson 

 Crusoe," and the part he took was that of " The 

 Prairie Bird." He acted under his own proper 

 name, and the next name in the caste was that 

 of W. S. Gilbert, who played " An Invisible 

 Black." Commenting on the wonderful list of 

 the names of the amateur actors, the Referee, 

 years afterwards said : " Arthur Locker was the 



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