Forty years gone went out on the spree;
To every trick on the cards we were fly,
And now of the four alive there’s but me.
For night will come and man must die,
And we come, to look back half ashamed by and by
On what we thought fun in the morning.
Judy, March 19, 1879.
The Three Land Agitators in Ireland.
The following were selected, from over one hundred parodies sent in to The World, as worthy of the first and second prizes:—