An ebon nymph grac’d his shop-door—
He dealt in rags and phials.
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It is very long, and its only interest consists in its descriptions of scenes much changed during the past fifty years.
“A Lay of Modern Exon: a serio-comic satire on the Great Gas Question,” by Blabington Mike-Hawley, F.C.E., was the title of a small pamphlet published in Exeter in 1879. It was a not very good parody of Lord Macaulay, and of purely local interest.
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AMERICAN PARODIES
On page [284] a parody of E. A. Poe, entitled “The Swells,” was erroneously attributed to Mr. T. F. Dillon Croker. That gentleman had kindly written a copy of the poem for this collection, hence the error, which he wishes to be corrected. The author of the parody is unknown.