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A fortnight later the same paper contained another parody, on the same speech, entitled The Seven Drinks of Man, and fortunately for the readers of “Parodies” the Editor of “The Sporting Times” has kindly lent the wood engravings which accompanied it. These distantly remind one, in their effects of light and shade, of some of the best works of Rembrandt, and whilst it may perhaps be said that they lack in execution, in conception they are immense.
The Seven Drinks of Man.
——“All the world’s a bar,
And all the men and women merely drinkers.”
“First the infant, mewling and pewking in his
nurse’s arms, and for his bottle crying.”
Then the schoolboy, quaffing his ginger-beer,
Until “he well nigh bursts.”
