My Carpet-bag, that held them all, my sole remaining joy,
Is gone, for ever gone!—and so’s that little Bulgar Boy!
I ran to Mrs. Bull—her Salisbury once admired me so!—
“Oh, Mrs. Bull! what do you think?—ain’t this a pretty go?—
That horrid little Bulgar Boy you thought we’d tied so tight,—
He’s stolen my things and run away!!!”—Says she,
“And sarve you right!!!”
Punch. October 17, 1885.
There was another political parody entitled “The Boy and the Bear, a ballad of Bulgaria” in Punch September 24, 1887, but it was not so interesting, nor so close a parody as the above.