Left lacerate Grimalkin latebrose—
That killed the cat
That ate the malt,
That lay in the house that Jack built.
The Pall Mall Gazette for April 22, 1887, contained a Political Parody, entitled “Jubilee Coercion Bill, No. 87.” It was profusely illustrated by F. C. G., and without these illustrations the letterpress would read flat and dull, especially as the fun of calling Goschen, Chamberlain and Caine, “Rats,” however true it may have been in 1887, is pretty well exhausted by this time.
The parody concludes with a portrait of John Bull waving a Home Rule flag, under him are the following lines:—
This is the Farmer who’ll blow his horn—(John Bull.)
When he hears the Cock that’ll crow one morn,—(Justice to Ireland.)
And rouse John Morley shaven and shorn,