In the Post-office Directory, &c.
(The Author continues to string notable names together
in this style for six more verses.)
In fact, there’s nought or nobody the keen compilers spare,
And all we have immortalised are bona fide, there;
Just turn to the last copy, and you’ll find them all forthwith,
Unless you chance to lose yourself amongst the tribes of Smith,
In Kelly’s last Directory, all of the present year.
From A Pottle of Strawberries, by Albert Smith. 1848.
In the following notes, extracts are given from a few parodies which are not sufficiently amusing to be quoted in full.