Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors, Vol. 1: Containing Parodies of the Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, and the Reverend C. Wolfe
Line 13. Pop goes the musketoons. A learned friend suggested Bang as a stronger expression. But as African gunpowder is notoriously bad, the author thought Pop the better word.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
