The tempest of anger will find very near;
And ere they perceive that it speeds on its way
The bubbles called Peers will be blown far away.
J. Pratt.
The Weekly Dispatch. August 24, 1884.
A very good parody of Bonnie Dundee will also be found in “Three in Norway, by two of them,” published recently by Longmans & Co., London. The parody is entitled “An Ode to the Last Pot of (Keiller’s Dundee) Marmalade.” A parody of “A Highland Lad my Love was born,” entitled “The Grand Old Man,” and commencing “In Tory bonds our Bill was born,” appeared in Punch, December 16, 1882.
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The Black Broom.
The Broom cam capouring doon to the Hoose,
Wi’ a mossion aboot an Excisemon;