Snow-balls versus batons and bayonets.
Philomaches.
[Edinburgh] : Balfour & Jack, printers,
[1838]
A parody, in verse, on the snowball riot at Edinburgh University, 12 Jan. 1838.
First lines read: The policeman came down like the wolf on the fold, / Their fingers all muffled with mitts from the cold.
Signed at the foot of the text - 'Philomaches'.
Riots
Scotland Edinburgh.