Good bye! ’Twere a ticklish task and queer.
But, at any rate we’ll see!”
That Millinere, whose eye is damp,
Whose tie is tumbled sore,
Is gone, and the newly-fledged M.P.
Enters St. Stephen’s door.
Punch. January 30, 1885.
This cruel and senseless fashion has, at last, been declared “bad form.” No longer are birds to be worn in bonnets or hats; and the edict has gone forth, both in London and Paris, that those who wear them after this ukase are to be regarded as provincials who know no better. This resolution has been taken only just in time to save some small remnant of the race of Humming Bird, that “living flower,” and the Bird of Paradise.
Tom Hood’s “Comic Annual” for 1868 contained “The Spiritual Parnassus” by a Literary Medium. This consists of parodies on Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, and S. T. Coleridge, written by the late Mr. William Jeffery Prowse. The parody, or rather imitation of Coleridge’s style is admitted to be the best of its kind ever written, especially for its humorous description of the failings of the “Old man eloquent.”