Of spadgers and pea-green paint you’ll find in the attic ’ardly a trace,
And, when me and my old woman ’as words—there’s allus plenty o’ space!
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This appeared originally in Punch, May 14, 1887.
Mr. Sims has recently published (London, Chatto and Windus) The Dagonet Reciter, which contains most of the poems which have been referred to in this Collection, “Ostler Joe,” “The Life-boat,” “Keeping Christmas” etc., as well as a selection of his humorous prose writings.
Before leaving this author, there remains a parody of his to be quoted, it should have appeared in Volume IV., which contained other parodies of “The Lost Chord.”
The Lost Cord.
Seated one day in a carriage,
I was frightened and ill at ease,
For a fellow, behaving wildly,