The Home Rule van shall meet you, and the Grand Old whip will drive.
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This not very brilliant political parody will be found in an anonymous pamphlet entitled “Glad-Par-Stonell-Iana.” Waterlow & Sons, 1889.
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NURSERY RHYMES.
Parodies on Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Songs, which were interrupted in order to introduce those relating to Smoking, can now be resumed, as a few good ones still remain to be quoted. When the late Mr. J. O. Halliwell (Halliwell-Phillipps) first brought out his collection of Nursery Rhymes, his friend James Robinson Planché, the dramatist, wrote some little humourous skits on them. These were merely meant for playful badinage, but a few lines may be quoted from them:—
Ride-a-cockhorse
To Kennington-Cross;
Come and see Planché,
Who works like a horse