15 JULY 1922, Page 14

A PAB.ODY ON TT-TE " BRIDE OF ABYDOS."-

[To THE EDITOR OF THE. " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Could you by any chance help me to obtain, a copy of some lines about Ireland, a parody on the first lines-of the "Bride of Abydos " Know ye the- land:"? I first saw them many years ago on the wall of the officers' guardroom, at the Castle, Dublin, between 1870 and 1875 I think,. and, if. my memory does not deceive me, they appeared some years later, between 1885 and 1890 perhaps, in Vanity Fair: I. wrote to. this- paper for assistance, but, owing to a change- in, the ownership, it could not help me. I can only remember very few of them. " Where their landlords like woodcock in daylight' they shoot," for