Since the June and July parts were published containing parodies on "The Burial of Sir John Moore," Truth has had a Parody Competition with that poem as the selected original. The Editor of Truth published no less than twenty-four parodies, many of which were very amusing.
Some of the best are given complete, with a few extracts from the remainder:—
PARODIES OF
"THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE."
THE DEATH OF THE "CHILDERSES."
NOT half-sovereigns were we, but ten-shilling bits,
The thin, jaundiced children of Childers;
To name us the public were put to their wits,
As some called us "Guilders," some "Gilders."
We buried our heads in our cradle, the Mint,
And were sparingly fed by our nurses;