“It’s Manners’ tip that’s laid me low,”
This answer did Ralph mutter.
“I’m busting, sir, with cups o’ tea,
And plates o’ bread-and-butter!”
Funny Folks. December, 1885.
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THE POETS AT TEA.
Such is the title of a series of short clever parodies which appeared in The Cambridge Fortnightly (Feb. 7, 1888). This bright little magazine is published by Mr. Octavus Tomson, 16, King’s Parade, Cambridge. Four verses are here omitted, but the titles are given:—
Macaulay, who made it.
Pour, varlet, pour the water,