Experience by thee, my friend:
Thy chums, they have been taught,
Hadst thou been doomèd nées to ride
As reckless fellows ought
Then had thy Roman nose escaped
Much evil thou hast wrought!
R. C. Blow.
The Wheeling Annual for 1885.
Finis (Beeton’s Annual, 1877) contained a long parody on “Evangeline,” from which the following lines may be quoted:—