VI.
Can his bumps be repaid?
Won't he be ever afraid
Of 'busses? I wondered!
Honour the try he made,
Honour the stones he weighed,
As he limped homeward.
From "Cribbings from the Poets" (Jones and Piggott, Cambridge, 1883.)
On page 38 a parody entitled The Doctor's Heavy Brigade was inserted, with a note that the author's name was not known. I have been pleased to receive the information that these clever verses were written by a Scotch poet whose name I am not at liberty to mention, and appeared in The Scotsman about ten years ago.