134 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



Opposite appears a reproduction of the full-page 

 drawing of the " Savages at Home," in which 

 " Tegetmi " is shown holding a fowl in triumph 

 before the assembled " Braves " — well - known 

 members at the time, including Henry Irving, 

 John Toole, G. A. Henty, Hubert Herkomer, and 

 Pinero. The outlined crane on his blanket is 

 a happy touch, his Natural History of Cranes 

 having then been recently published. 



Indicative also of his popularity with the 

 younger men of the club is the clever and witty 

 address " To Sixty-six from Twenty-six," spoken 

 by the writer Horace Lennard, then aged twenty- 

 six, to the " Grand Young Man " on his sixty- 

 sixth birthday, November 4th, 1882, when he took 

 the chair at the house dinner. The address, 

 which is too long to appear here, will be found, 

 set out as originally printed, as an Appendix. 

 Incidentally, I may sa.y that the freedom of 

 speech, the ironical advice, the " chaffing," but 

 sincere good feeling running through it, and the 

 touch of genuine sentiment at the close were, 

 and still are, as characteristic of the Savage Club 

 as any of its other peculiar features. 



With the record of Tegetmeier's connection 

 with the club, with the friendships made or 

 cemented there, and his clever, caustic comments 

 and witty sayings in the " give and take " of 

 conversation therein ; with his work on the 

 committee, and with the events occurring in 



