Two other parodies of John Gilpin may be mentioned, one which appeared in “The Yorkshireman” for August 1876, entitled The Connaught Rangers, and commencing:
Bold Sutcliffe was a citizen
Of credit and renown,
A Bowling dyer eke was he
And Mayor of Bradford town.
The other appeared in “The Idel News” in August 1878, and commenced thus:—
Paddy and the Mormon.
An Episode of Idel Green, Yorks.
Childe Evins was a citizen
Of credit and renown,