By thy tattered clothes, and battered nose,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
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The Meeting of the Justices, relating to the water supply in Calcutta, appears in Lyrics and Lays, by “Pips,” published in Calcutta, in 1867. It possesses little merit as a parody, and the topic was one of purely local interest:—
It was an ancient gentleman,
And he talk’d for hours three,
“By thy long lean form, and dismal drone
We fain must list to thee.”
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Three long parodies are also to be found in Truth, February 1, 1877; May 16, 1878; and November 2, 1882.