My deep revenge she'll not forget
I think she may be brushing yet!
O! the girl was fair to see!
From Fun, February 1, 1868.
The same journal also contained, December 16th, 1872, Papa's Theory (after A. Tenny..n); and, May 7, 1876, Home They Brought the Gallant Red—(croquet.)
George Cruikshank's Omnibus, published in 1842, contains on page 260 some pertinent remarks on Parody. "It is essential, says E. P. W., to the full effect of a parody, that the original should be familiar to the reader. Now, several parodies we have received possess that advantage, thus we have half-a-dozen parodies on "Gray's Elegy," suggested by the conflagration at the Tower, and a like number of variations of the "Beggar's Petition;" but although these originals are well known, we pass their parodies by in favour of one upon Tennyson's 'Mariana at the Moated Grange,' entitled"—
THE CLERK.
With black coal-dust the walls and floor
Were thickly coated, one and all;