tumpty

Updated: May 10, 2025

While changing the dress suit for his street wear, from a back room came the sound of the blackamore moving about, chanting that weird refrain, tumpty, tumpty, tum tum; tumpty, tumpty, tum tum; which from Mesopotamia to the Pillars of Hercules, from the time of Ishmael to the present, has been the song of the sons of the desert. What was his surprise when the blackamore emerged.

Wardon Allan Curtis - The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton