This is from Tweddell’s North of England Tractates No3 1869


John Reed Appleton has been written about in depth by George Markham Tweddell – they were walking companions and both active poets. There is a chapter in Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1972 – the original book can be download free from this site https://www.artsrainbow.com/georgemarkhamtweddell/2012/12/24/bards-and-authors-of-cleveland-and-south-durham-1872-pdf-george-markham-tweddell/


This Tractate contains some poems dedicated to John Reed Appleton by another poet Tweddell both published and wrote about in the Tractates and Bards and Authors – John Riley Robinson and a preface by Tweddell himself. It features a humourous parody of  Hood’s powerful poems The Song of the Shirt and The Lay of the Labourer. Appleton’s parody is called The Trials and Tribulations of a Tourist.