And for that dreadful crime
(Young sailors learn to shun it)
He’s working out his time:
In ten years he’ll have done it.
Fun. October 12, 1867.
The Bab Ballads have been often imitated (it is scarcely possible to parody them successfully), but the imitations are for the most part very inferior to the originals, besides which they are generally very long, so that only a few examples can be quoted. The three following appeared in a prize competition in The World, the subject selected by the editor being:—
KING THEEBAW OF BURMAH.
First Prize.
(Model: “Sir Guy the Crusader.”)