Not if six hundred
Years on this earth I stayed.
Why cricket's ever played,
Often I've wondered!
From Lays of Modern Oxford, 1874.
The following is a fair specimen of the Puff Poetical, taken from the Daily News of January, 1878:—
CHARGE OF THE FAIR BRIGADE.
With the Junior Partner's Apologies to Mr, Tennyson.
Half a league, half a league,