But I never could quite understand why you seem
To enjoy playing frog to my bull.”
“Old pippin, it’s clear,” little Randolph replied.
“A fine Grand Old Man you may be,—
But I’m making my game, and the public all round
Hail the coming Grand Young ’Un in me!”
Punch, November 18, 1882.
Truth for April 5, 1883, contained nineteen competition parodies of “You are old, Father William,” amongst which the following are the most interesting, the others are nearly all out of date:—
“You are old, Father William,” the young man cried,