[1] A note in the first edition states: "Many of these rhymes appeared in The Bulletin, The Sunday Times, and The Orange Leader."

A reviewer in The Truth from Sydney noted: "The little volume of verse, it would be absurd to call it poetry, which he has just published, is destined to be widely popular, for in its pages are contained many quaint conceits and merry quips, such as a people love to read—not for instruction, not for education, but for amusement, for mental recreation.

While he lives and writes, giving us new matter over which to chuckle and laugh, his book will be read and enjoyed.

"[2] In The Sydney Morning Herald a writer admired the title and called it "a book in which Mr. W. T. Goodge has gathered together some of the clever and amusing verses in which he has from time to time good-naturedly laughed at sundry men and things.

He is a complete master of the tools necessary for his work, and rhymes away steadily and merrily as if it was as natural for a man to talk in verse as in prose.