Squash the little wretch, confound him!
That's the way that I should answer,—
That's the sort of man that I am."
From Funny Folks.
In 1879 the editor of The World offered two prizes for the best parodies on Longfellow's Hiawatha, the subject selected being The Hunting of Cetewayo. There were 135 competitors, the first prize was awarded to Floreant-Lauri, whose poem will be found, with the three next best, in The World for October 8, 1879.
The prize poem commenced as follows:—
VERY wrath was Wolsey-Pullsey
When he landed at Fort Durban,
Hearing all the depredations