Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CAPTAIN REECE.

THE RIVAL CURATES.

ONLY A DANCING GIRL.

TO A LITTLE MAID By a Policeman .

THE TROUBADOUR.

FERDINANDO AND ELVIRA; Or , the Gentle Pieman . PART I.

PART II.

TO MY BRIDE (WHOEVER SHE MAY BE.)

SIR MACKLIN.

THE YARN OF THE "NANCY BELL." [44]

THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO.

THE PRECOCIOUS BABY. A VERY TRUE TALE.

TO PHOEBE. [59]

BAINES CAREW, GENTLEMAN.

THOMAS WINTERBOTTOM HANCE.

A DISCONTENTED SUGAR BROKER.

THE PANTOMIME "SUPER" TO HIS MASK.

THE GHOST, THE GALLANT, THE GAEL, AND THE GOBLIN.

THE PHANTOM CURATE. A FABLE.

KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO.

BOB POLTER.

THE STORY OF PRINCE AGIB.

ELLEN M c JONES ABERDEEN.

PETER THE WAG.

TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. BY A MISERABLE WRETCH.

GENTLE ALICE BROWN.

MISTER WILLIAM.

THE BUMBOAT WOMAN'S STORY.

LOST MR. BLAKE.

THE BABY'S VENGEANCE.

THE CAPTAIN AND THE MERMAIDS.

ANNIE PROTHEROE. A LEGEND OF STRATFORD-LE-BOW.

AN UNFORTUNATE LIKENESS.

THE KING OF CANOODLE-DUM.

THE MARTINET.

THE SAILOR BOY TO HIS LASS.

THE REVEREND SIMON MAGUS.

MY DREAM.

THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO AGAIN.

THE HAUGHTY ACTOR.

THE TWO MAJORS.

EMILY, JOHN, JAMES, AND I. A DERBY LEGEND.

THE PERILS OF INVISIBILITY.

THE MYSTIC SELVAGEE.

PHRENOLOGY.

THE FAIRY CURATE.

THE WAY OF WOOING.

HONGREE AND MAHRY. A RECOLLECTION OF A SURREY MELODRAMA.

ETIQUETTE. [243]

AT A PANTOMIME. BY A BILIOUS ONE.

HAUNTED.

FOOTNOTES

FIFTY “BAB” BALLADS
Much Sound and Little Sense

BY
W. S. GILBERT

Baby at piano

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR [1]

 

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