The Editor added the following remarks:—
"Among the numerous parodies of 'The Burial of Sir John Moore' there are some, faulty in parts, in which there are remarkably vigorous verses. One competitor, for instance, treating Jingo as a personality, says:—
'No well-bunged beer-cask confined his breast,
Nor in cerement white we bound him;
But he lay 'neath a water-butt, taking his rest,
With a pool of that liquid around him.'
Another winds up thus:—
'Smiling and gladly we toppled him down,
That image of humbug so gory;
We wrote but one line—'Here, under this stone,