This favourite old song was written by an American, General G. P. Morris, and several parodies of it were inserted in Volume IV., the following has since been received from the United States:—
The Woodman’s Reply.
No, mum, this ’ere old tree
Can’t be no longer spared;
It ain’t no odds to me,
If Muster Brown was squared;
But Muster Brown says, “Green,
You drop that there tree down,”
And what he say he mean,
Sure-ly, do Muster Brown.