BLUE BONNETS OVER THE BORDER 73 Blue Stockings over the Border. Mirror 1828 74 Write, write, tourist and traveller. _Robert Gilfillan_ 74 Read, read, Woodstock and Waverley, _Robert Gilfillan_, 1831 74 Tax, tax, Income and Property. Punch, 1851 75 March, march, pipe-clayed and belted in 75 Take, take, lobsters and lettuces. Punch 75 Take, take, blue pill and colocynth. Punch 75 Drill, drill, London and Manchester. Punch, 1859 75 MR. KEMPLE’S FAREWELL ADDRESS, 1817 “As the worn war-horse at the trumpet’s sound” 75 Mr. Patrick Robertson’s farewell to the Bar “As the worn show horse whom Ducrow so long” 76 Lament for Tabby, or the Cat’s Coronach. The Satirist, 1814 76 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL 77 Introduction―― “The way was long, the wind was cold” 77 “The tide was low, the wind was cold.” Funny Folks, 1875 77 “The sun was hot, the day was bright.” Weekly Echo, 1885 77 The Lay of the last Cab-Hack. Funny Folks 78 The Bray of the last Donkey 78 The Lay of the last Ministry. Fun, 1885 78 Mr. Barnum’s Experience of Travelling 116 CANTO III.―― “And said I that my limbs were old” 78 “And thought they I was growing old.” They are Five. 1880, 79 CANTO VI.―― “Breathes there the man with soul so dead” 79 A declamation, by Miss Mudge, the Blue Stocking 79 “Breathes there a Scot with soul so dead.” _O. P. Q. P. Smiff_. The Figaro, 1874 79 Pilosagine. Advertisement parody 80 “Lives there a man with soul so dead” 80 “Breathes there a man with taste so dead.” The Figaro, 1876 80 “O Caledonia! very stern and wild.” Jon Duan 80 Don Salisbury’s Midnight Vigil. Truth, 1885 81 Parody from the Lays of the Mocking Sprite 82