How the Customers come to the Sandown Bazaar.
(The following parody was written for the programme of the Sandown Bazaar, Isle of Wight, in 1879. With a few verbal alterations it might easily be applied to a similar purpose in any other locality.)
If “Robert the Rhymer” were alive, I’d implore,
Forgiveness, for trying to copy “Lodore.”
“What things do you want
For the Sandown Bazaar?”
My kind friends have ask’d me
Thus, time after time.
Moreover some wish’d me