Leaving her rifled of her once fair fame,
A bye-word for the nations, and all Europe’s shame.
Truth, Christmas Number, 1884.
A parody entitled Childe Snobson’s Pilgrimage, in several parts, appeared in volume III. of Punch 1842; and again, in 1883, another long parody of Childe Harold ran through several numbers of the same periodical. This was called Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage, and, when complete, was issued in book form by Bradbury Agnew & Co., with the Author’s name, E. J. Milliken, on the title page, and some illustrations by E. J. Wheeler.
This work is at once a parody of Childe Harold, and a satire on the typical young “Masher” of the period, who, having exhausted all modern forms of dissipation, finally “comes an awful cropper” in the slang of his tribe.
“Childe Chappie” bids farewell to the haunts of his boyhood in the following verses, sung to the accompaniment of a banjo.
I.
Adieu! adieu! Home life’s a bore
When one is twenty-two;