And on April 17, 1886 Punch had also a parody founded on this topic of the Girton Ladies, containing the following verses:—
A Story of Girton.
Oh, the scholary girls, too blue,
Who lived at Girton, down by the Cam,
Just where the Cam bids the town adieu!
And who would ever have thought them a sham—
These girls, and the lots they knew?
Too blue, for the colour of health is red;
And their eyes had the dull, boiled-gooseberry look
Of maids who are meant to go to bed