PageA Bishop once—I will not name his see,484A British tar is a soaring soul,204A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt,309A gentleman of City fame,138A hive of bees, as I've heard say,536A lady fair, of lineage high,123A leafy cot, where no dry rot,294Although of native maids the cream,482A magnet hung in a hardware shop,153A maiden sat at her window wide,454A man who would woo a fair maid,209A monarch is pestered with cares,526A more humane Mikado never,388An actor—Gibbs, of Drury Lane,391An actor sits in doubtful gloom,508An elderly person—a prophet by trade,114An excellent soldier who's worthy the name,399A proud Pasha wasBailey Ben,242A rich advowson, highly prized,356As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,99At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper,58A tar, but poorly prized,528A tenor, all singers above,547A Troubadour he played,51At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention,515A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,499Babette she was a fisher gal,76Bedecked in fashion trim,471Bob Polter was a navvy, and,176Bold-faced ranger,512Braid the raven hair,113Brightly dawns our wedding day,81Come, collar this bad man,440Come mighty Must!,367Come with me, little maid!,24Comes a train of little ladies,254Comes the broken flower,329Dalilah de Dardy adored,64Dr. Belville was regarded as theCrichtonof his age,146Earl Joyce he was a kind old party,229Emily Jane was a nursery maid,405Fear no unlicensed entry,431First you're born—and I'll be bound you,487From east and south the holy clan,108Gentle, modest, little flower,122Good children, list, if you're inclined,221Haunted? Ay, in a social way,39He is an Englishman!,13He loves! If in the bygone years,453I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,42I cannot tell what this love may be,169If my action's stiff and crude,480If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am,16If you're anxious to shine in the high æsthetic line, as a man ofculture rare,271If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,49I go away, this blessed day,348I have a song to sing, O!182I knew a boor—a clownish card,87I know a youth who loves a little maid,361I love a man who'll smile and joke,383I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief,214In all the towns and cities fair,131In enterprise of martial kind,262I often wonder whether you,376I once did know a Turkish man,549I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,6I sing a legend of the sea,273Is life a boon?38I stole the Prince, and I brought him here,26It's my opinion—though I own,473It was a Bishop bold,44It was a robber's daughter, and her name wasAlice Brown,205I've often thought that headstrong youths,164I've paintedShakespeareall my life,287I've wisdom from the East and from the West,299John courted lovelyMary Ann,28King Borria Bungalee Boo,155Letters, letters, letters, letters!501List while the poet trolls,8Lord B. was a nobleman bold,475Macphairson Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan,185Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner,256My boy, you may take it from me,458My wedded life,534No nobler captain ever trod,492Now, Jurymen, hear my advice,411Now, Marco, dear,345O'er unreclaimed suburban clays,148Of all the good attorneys who,125Of all the ships upon the blue,1Of all the youths I ever saw,94Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,161Oh, big was the bosom of braveAlum Bey,317Oh, foolish fay,32Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray,136Oh! is there not one maiden breast,143Oh! listen to the tale of littleAnnie Protheroe,280Oh, listen to the tale ofMister William, if you please,235Oh, list to this incredible tale,171Oh! little maid!—(I do not know your name),82Oh! my name isJohn Wellington Wells,211Oh, that my soul its gods could see,71Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes!523OldPeterled a wretched life,413On all Arcadia's sunny plain,433On a tree by a river a little tomtit,354Once a fairy,446Only a dancing girl,14Perhaps already you may know,426Policeman Peter Forth I drag,193Prithee, pretty maiden—prithee, tell me true,397Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is553Rising early in the morning,119Roll on, thou ball, roll on!539Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year,22Sighing softly to the river,219Sir Guy was a doughty crusader,34Small titles and orders,84Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,497Some seven men form an Association,490Some time ago, in simple verse,338Sorry her lot who loves too well,286Spurn not the nobly born,307Strike the concertina's melancholy string,518Take a pair of sparkling eyes,175The air is charged with amatory numbers,92TheBallyshannonfoundered off the coast of Cariboo,541The bravest names for fire and flames,18The earth has armies plenty,248The law is the true embodiment,191The other night, from cares exempt,368There grew a little flower,418There lived a King, as I've been told,424TheReverend Micah Sowls,467There were three niggers of Chickeraboo,200The story ofFrederick Gowler,301The sun was setting in its wonted west,460The Sun, whose rays,56They intend to send a wire,106This isSir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324To a garden full of posies,130Try we life-long, we can never,466'Twas on the shores that round our coast,101Two better friends you wouldn't pass,363Vast, empty shell!144Weary at heart and extremely ill,265Were I a king in very truth,504Were I thy bride,374What time the poet hath hymned,445When a felon's not engaged in his employment,63When all night long a chap remains,292When a merry maiden marries,198When Britain really ruled the waves,74Whene'er I poke sarcastic joke,69When first my old, old love I knew,439When I first put this uniform on,322When I, good friends, was called to the Bar,315When I was a lad I served a term,227When I went to the Bar as a very young man,278When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,255When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye,330When rival adorers come courting a maid,420When the buds are blossoming,403When the night wind howls in the chimney cowl, and the bat inthe moonlight flies,381When you find you're a broken-down critter,506When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'dby anxiety,335Would you know the kind of maid,240ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO TITLESPageÆsthete, The,271Ah Me!,255Anglicised Utopia,497Annie Protheroe,280Ape and the Lady, The,123Appeal, An,143At a Pantomime,508A Worm will Turn,383Babette's Love,76Baby's Vengeance, The,265Baffled Grumbler, The,69Baines Carew, Gentleman,125Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum,549Bishop and the 'Busman, The,44Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The,108Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again, The,376Blue Blood,307Bob Polter,176Braid the Raven Hair,113Brave Alum Bey,317British Tar, The,204Bumboat Woman's Story, The,214Captain and the Mermaids, The,273Captain Reece,1Classical Revival, A,505Coming By-and-By, The,22Contemplative Sentry, The,292Cunning Woman, The,433Damonv.Pythias,363Darned Mounseer, The,6Disagreeable Man, The,16Disconcerted Tenor, The,547Discontented Sugar Broker, A,138Disillusioned,71Don't Forget!,345Duke and the Duchess, The,84Duke of Plaza-Toro, The,262Eheu Fugaces—!,92Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen,185Emily, John, James, and I,405English Girl, An,499Englishman, The,13Etiquette,541Fairy Curate, The,446Fairy Queen's Song, The,32Family Fool, The,161Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman,58Fickle Breeze, The,219First Lord's Song, The,227First Love,299Folly of "Brown, The,87Force of Argument, The,475General John,18Gentle Alice Brown,205Ghosts' High Noon, The,381Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin, The,148Girl Graduates,106Good Little Girls,482Great Oak Tree, The,418Gregory Parable, LL.D.294Haughty Actor, The,391Haunted,39He and She,361Heavy Dragoon, The,49He Loves!453Her Terms,534Highly Respectable Gondolier, The,26Hongree and Mahry,460House of Peers, The,74How it's Done,512Humane Mikado, The,388Independent Bee, The,536Is Life a Boon?38Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord's Daughter,528John and Freddy,28Judge's Song, The,315King Borria Bungalee Boo,155King Goodheart,424King of Canoodle-dum, The,301Lieutenant-Colonel Flare,248Life,487Life is Lovely all the Year,403Limited Liability,490Little Oliver,229Lorenzo de Lardy,64Lost Mr. Blake,256Love-sick Boy, The,439Magnet and the Churn, The,153Manager's Perplexities, A,504Man who would Woo a Fair Maid, A,209Martinet, The,338Merry Madrigal, A,81Merryman and his Maid, The,182Mighty Must, The,367Mirage, A,374Mister William,235Modern Major-General, The,42Modest Couple, The,330My Dream,368My Lady,471Mystic Selvagee, The,426National Anthem, The,526Nightmare, A,335Old Paul and Old Tim,420One against the World,473Only a Dancing Girl,14Only Roses,130Out of Sorts,506Pantomime "Super" to his Mask, The,144Pasha Bailey Ben,242Perils of Invisibility, The,413Periwinkle Girl, The,164Peter the Wag,193Phantom Curate, The,484Philosophic Pill, The,299Phrenology,440Played-out Humorist, The,553Poetry Everywhere,445Policeman's Lot, The,63Practical Joker, The,523Precocious Baby, The,114Proper Pride,56Put a Penny in the Slot,280Recipe, A,175Reverend Micah Sowls, The,467Reverend Simon Magus, The,356Reward of Merit, The,146Rival Curates, The,8Rover's Apology, The,136Said I to Myself, Said I,278Sailor Boy to his Lass, The,348Sans Souci,169Sensation Captain, The,492Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324Sir Guy the Crusader,34Sir Macklin,94Sleep on!431Solatium,329Sorcerer's Song, The,211Sorry her Lot,286Speculation,254Story of Prince Agib, The,518Suicide's Grave, The,354Susceptible Chancellor, The,191Tangled Skein, The,466Tempora Mutantur,501They'll None of 'em be Missed,99Thomas Winterbottom Hance,131Thomson Green and Harriet Hale,171Three Kings of Chickeraboo, The,200To a Little Maid,24To my Bride,82To Ph[oe]be,122To the Terrestrial Globe,539Troubadour, The,51True Diffidence,458Two Majors, The,399Two Ogres, The,221Unfortunate Likeness, An,287Usher's Charge, The,411Way of Wooing, The,454When a Merry Maiden Marries,198When I First Put this Uniform On,322Willow Waly!397Working Monarch, The,119Would you Know?240Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The,101THE END.Transcriber's Notes1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original positionas they appear in the source publication.
PageA Bishop once—I will not name his see,484A British tar is a soaring soul,204A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt,309A gentleman of City fame,138A hive of bees, as I've heard say,536A lady fair, of lineage high,123A leafy cot, where no dry rot,294Although of native maids the cream,482A magnet hung in a hardware shop,153A maiden sat at her window wide,454A man who would woo a fair maid,209A monarch is pestered with cares,526A more humane Mikado never,388An actor—Gibbs, of Drury Lane,391An actor sits in doubtful gloom,508An elderly person—a prophet by trade,114An excellent soldier who's worthy the name,399A proud Pasha wasBailey Ben,242A rich advowson, highly prized,356As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,99At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper,58A tar, but poorly prized,528A tenor, all singers above,547A Troubadour he played,51At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention,515A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,499Babette she was a fisher gal,76Bedecked in fashion trim,471Bob Polter was a navvy, and,176Bold-faced ranger,512Braid the raven hair,113Brightly dawns our wedding day,81Come, collar this bad man,440Come mighty Must!,367Come with me, little maid!,24Comes a train of little ladies,254Comes the broken flower,329Dalilah de Dardy adored,64Dr. Belville was regarded as theCrichtonof his age,146Earl Joyce he was a kind old party,229Emily Jane was a nursery maid,405Fear no unlicensed entry,431First you're born—and I'll be bound you,487From east and south the holy clan,108Gentle, modest, little flower,122Good children, list, if you're inclined,221Haunted? Ay, in a social way,39He is an Englishman!,13He loves! If in the bygone years,453I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,42I cannot tell what this love may be,169If my action's stiff and crude,480If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am,16If you're anxious to shine in the high æsthetic line, as a man ofculture rare,271If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,49I go away, this blessed day,348I have a song to sing, O!182I knew a boor—a clownish card,87I know a youth who loves a little maid,361I love a man who'll smile and joke,383I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief,214In all the towns and cities fair,131In enterprise of martial kind,262I often wonder whether you,376I once did know a Turkish man,549I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,6I sing a legend of the sea,273Is life a boon?38I stole the Prince, and I brought him here,26It's my opinion—though I own,473It was a Bishop bold,44It was a robber's daughter, and her name wasAlice Brown,205I've often thought that headstrong youths,164I've paintedShakespeareall my life,287I've wisdom from the East and from the West,299John courted lovelyMary Ann,28King Borria Bungalee Boo,155Letters, letters, letters, letters!501List while the poet trolls,8Lord B. was a nobleman bold,475Macphairson Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan,185Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner,256My boy, you may take it from me,458My wedded life,534No nobler captain ever trod,492Now, Jurymen, hear my advice,411Now, Marco, dear,345O'er unreclaimed suburban clays,148Of all the good attorneys who,125Of all the ships upon the blue,1Of all the youths I ever saw,94Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,161Oh, big was the bosom of braveAlum Bey,317Oh, foolish fay,32Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray,136Oh! is there not one maiden breast,143Oh! listen to the tale of littleAnnie Protheroe,280Oh, listen to the tale ofMister William, if you please,235Oh, list to this incredible tale,171Oh! little maid!—(I do not know your name),82Oh! my name isJohn Wellington Wells,211Oh, that my soul its gods could see,71Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes!523OldPeterled a wretched life,413On all Arcadia's sunny plain,433On a tree by a river a little tomtit,354Once a fairy,446Only a dancing girl,14Perhaps already you may know,426Policeman Peter Forth I drag,193Prithee, pretty maiden—prithee, tell me true,397Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is553Rising early in the morning,119Roll on, thou ball, roll on!539Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year,22Sighing softly to the river,219Sir Guy was a doughty crusader,34Small titles and orders,84Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,497Some seven men form an Association,490Some time ago, in simple verse,338Sorry her lot who loves too well,286Spurn not the nobly born,307Strike the concertina's melancholy string,518Take a pair of sparkling eyes,175The air is charged with amatory numbers,92TheBallyshannonfoundered off the coast of Cariboo,541The bravest names for fire and flames,18The earth has armies plenty,248The law is the true embodiment,191The other night, from cares exempt,368There grew a little flower,418There lived a King, as I've been told,424TheReverend Micah Sowls,467There were three niggers of Chickeraboo,200The story ofFrederick Gowler,301The sun was setting in its wonted west,460The Sun, whose rays,56They intend to send a wire,106This isSir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324To a garden full of posies,130Try we life-long, we can never,466'Twas on the shores that round our coast,101Two better friends you wouldn't pass,363Vast, empty shell!144Weary at heart and extremely ill,265Were I a king in very truth,504Were I thy bride,374What time the poet hath hymned,445When a felon's not engaged in his employment,63When all night long a chap remains,292When a merry maiden marries,198When Britain really ruled the waves,74Whene'er I poke sarcastic joke,69When first my old, old love I knew,439When I first put this uniform on,322When I, good friends, was called to the Bar,315When I was a lad I served a term,227When I went to the Bar as a very young man,278When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,255When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye,330When rival adorers come courting a maid,420When the buds are blossoming,403When the night wind howls in the chimney cowl, and the bat inthe moonlight flies,381When you find you're a broken-down critter,506When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'dby anxiety,335Would you know the kind of maid,240ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO TITLESPageÆsthete, The,271Ah Me!,255Anglicised Utopia,497Annie Protheroe,280Ape and the Lady, The,123Appeal, An,143At a Pantomime,508A Worm will Turn,383Babette's Love,76Baby's Vengeance, The,265Baffled Grumbler, The,69Baines Carew, Gentleman,125Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum,549Bishop and the 'Busman, The,44Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The,108Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again, The,376Blue Blood,307Bob Polter,176Braid the Raven Hair,113Brave Alum Bey,317British Tar, The,204Bumboat Woman's Story, The,214Captain and the Mermaids, The,273Captain Reece,1Classical Revival, A,505Coming By-and-By, The,22Contemplative Sentry, The,292Cunning Woman, The,433Damonv.Pythias,363Darned Mounseer, The,6Disagreeable Man, The,16Disconcerted Tenor, The,547Discontented Sugar Broker, A,138Disillusioned,71Don't Forget!,345Duke and the Duchess, The,84Duke of Plaza-Toro, The,262Eheu Fugaces—!,92Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen,185Emily, John, James, and I,405English Girl, An,499Englishman, The,13Etiquette,541Fairy Curate, The,446Fairy Queen's Song, The,32Family Fool, The,161Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman,58Fickle Breeze, The,219First Lord's Song, The,227First Love,299Folly of "Brown, The,87Force of Argument, The,475General John,18Gentle Alice Brown,205Ghosts' High Noon, The,381Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin, The,148Girl Graduates,106Good Little Girls,482Great Oak Tree, The,418Gregory Parable, LL.D.294Haughty Actor, The,391Haunted,39He and She,361Heavy Dragoon, The,49He Loves!453Her Terms,534Highly Respectable Gondolier, The,26Hongree and Mahry,460House of Peers, The,74How it's Done,512Humane Mikado, The,388Independent Bee, The,536Is Life a Boon?38Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord's Daughter,528John and Freddy,28Judge's Song, The,315King Borria Bungalee Boo,155King Goodheart,424King of Canoodle-dum, The,301Lieutenant-Colonel Flare,248Life,487Life is Lovely all the Year,403Limited Liability,490Little Oliver,229Lorenzo de Lardy,64Lost Mr. Blake,256Love-sick Boy, The,439Magnet and the Churn, The,153Manager's Perplexities, A,504Man who would Woo a Fair Maid, A,209Martinet, The,338Merry Madrigal, A,81Merryman and his Maid, The,182Mighty Must, The,367Mirage, A,374Mister William,235Modern Major-General, The,42Modest Couple, The,330My Dream,368My Lady,471Mystic Selvagee, The,426National Anthem, The,526Nightmare, A,335Old Paul and Old Tim,420One against the World,473Only a Dancing Girl,14Only Roses,130Out of Sorts,506Pantomime "Super" to his Mask, The,144Pasha Bailey Ben,242Perils of Invisibility, The,413Periwinkle Girl, The,164Peter the Wag,193Phantom Curate, The,484Philosophic Pill, The,299Phrenology,440Played-out Humorist, The,553Poetry Everywhere,445Policeman's Lot, The,63Practical Joker, The,523Precocious Baby, The,114Proper Pride,56Put a Penny in the Slot,280Recipe, A,175Reverend Micah Sowls, The,467Reverend Simon Magus, The,356Reward of Merit, The,146Rival Curates, The,8Rover's Apology, The,136Said I to Myself, Said I,278Sailor Boy to his Lass, The,348Sans Souci,169Sensation Captain, The,492Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324Sir Guy the Crusader,34Sir Macklin,94Sleep on!431Solatium,329Sorcerer's Song, The,211Sorry her Lot,286Speculation,254Story of Prince Agib, The,518Suicide's Grave, The,354Susceptible Chancellor, The,191Tangled Skein, The,466Tempora Mutantur,501They'll None of 'em be Missed,99Thomas Winterbottom Hance,131Thomson Green and Harriet Hale,171Three Kings of Chickeraboo, The,200To a Little Maid,24To my Bride,82To Ph[oe]be,122To the Terrestrial Globe,539Troubadour, The,51True Diffidence,458Two Majors, The,399Two Ogres, The,221Unfortunate Likeness, An,287Usher's Charge, The,411Way of Wooing, The,454When a Merry Maiden Marries,198When I First Put this Uniform On,322Willow Waly!397Working Monarch, The,119Would you Know?240Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The,101THE END.Transcriber's Notes1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original positionas they appear in the source publication.
PageA Bishop once—I will not name his see,484A British tar is a soaring soul,204A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt,309A gentleman of City fame,138A hive of bees, as I've heard say,536A lady fair, of lineage high,123A leafy cot, where no dry rot,294Although of native maids the cream,482A magnet hung in a hardware shop,153A maiden sat at her window wide,454A man who would woo a fair maid,209A monarch is pestered with cares,526A more humane Mikado never,388An actor—Gibbs, of Drury Lane,391An actor sits in doubtful gloom,508An elderly person—a prophet by trade,114An excellent soldier who's worthy the name,399A proud Pasha wasBailey Ben,242A rich advowson, highly prized,356As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,99At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper,58A tar, but poorly prized,528A tenor, all singers above,547A Troubadour he played,51At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention,515A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,499Babette she was a fisher gal,76Bedecked in fashion trim,471Bob Polter was a navvy, and,176Bold-faced ranger,512Braid the raven hair,113Brightly dawns our wedding day,81Come, collar this bad man,440Come mighty Must!,367Come with me, little maid!,24Comes a train of little ladies,254Comes the broken flower,329Dalilah de Dardy adored,64Dr. Belville was regarded as theCrichtonof his age,146Earl Joyce he was a kind old party,229Emily Jane was a nursery maid,405Fear no unlicensed entry,431First you're born—and I'll be bound you,487From east and south the holy clan,108Gentle, modest, little flower,122Good children, list, if you're inclined,221Haunted? Ay, in a social way,39He is an Englishman!,13He loves! If in the bygone years,453I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,42I cannot tell what this love may be,169If my action's stiff and crude,480If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am,16If you're anxious to shine in the high æsthetic line, as a man ofculture rare,271If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,49I go away, this blessed day,348I have a song to sing, O!182I knew a boor—a clownish card,87I know a youth who loves a little maid,361I love a man who'll smile and joke,383I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief,214In all the towns and cities fair,131In enterprise of martial kind,262I often wonder whether you,376I once did know a Turkish man,549I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,6I sing a legend of the sea,273Is life a boon?38I stole the Prince, and I brought him here,26It's my opinion—though I own,473It was a Bishop bold,44It was a robber's daughter, and her name wasAlice Brown,205I've often thought that headstrong youths,164I've paintedShakespeareall my life,287I've wisdom from the East and from the West,299John courted lovelyMary Ann,28King Borria Bungalee Boo,155Letters, letters, letters, letters!501List while the poet trolls,8Lord B. was a nobleman bold,475Macphairson Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan,185Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner,256My boy, you may take it from me,458My wedded life,534No nobler captain ever trod,492Now, Jurymen, hear my advice,411Now, Marco, dear,345O'er unreclaimed suburban clays,148Of all the good attorneys who,125Of all the ships upon the blue,1Of all the youths I ever saw,94Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,161Oh, big was the bosom of braveAlum Bey,317Oh, foolish fay,32Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray,136Oh! is there not one maiden breast,143Oh! listen to the tale of littleAnnie Protheroe,280Oh, listen to the tale ofMister William, if you please,235Oh, list to this incredible tale,171Oh! little maid!—(I do not know your name),82Oh! my name isJohn Wellington Wells,211Oh, that my soul its gods could see,71Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes!523OldPeterled a wretched life,413On all Arcadia's sunny plain,433On a tree by a river a little tomtit,354Once a fairy,446Only a dancing girl,14Perhaps already you may know,426Policeman Peter Forth I drag,193Prithee, pretty maiden—prithee, tell me true,397Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is553Rising early in the morning,119Roll on, thou ball, roll on!539Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year,22Sighing softly to the river,219Sir Guy was a doughty crusader,34Small titles and orders,84Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,497Some seven men form an Association,490Some time ago, in simple verse,338Sorry her lot who loves too well,286Spurn not the nobly born,307Strike the concertina's melancholy string,518Take a pair of sparkling eyes,175The air is charged with amatory numbers,92TheBallyshannonfoundered off the coast of Cariboo,541The bravest names for fire and flames,18The earth has armies plenty,248The law is the true embodiment,191The other night, from cares exempt,368There grew a little flower,418There lived a King, as I've been told,424TheReverend Micah Sowls,467There were three niggers of Chickeraboo,200The story ofFrederick Gowler,301The sun was setting in its wonted west,460The Sun, whose rays,56They intend to send a wire,106This isSir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324To a garden full of posies,130Try we life-long, we can never,466'Twas on the shores that round our coast,101Two better friends you wouldn't pass,363Vast, empty shell!144Weary at heart and extremely ill,265Were I a king in very truth,504Were I thy bride,374What time the poet hath hymned,445When a felon's not engaged in his employment,63When all night long a chap remains,292When a merry maiden marries,198When Britain really ruled the waves,74Whene'er I poke sarcastic joke,69When first my old, old love I knew,439When I first put this uniform on,322When I, good friends, was called to the Bar,315When I was a lad I served a term,227When I went to the Bar as a very young man,278When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,255When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye,330When rival adorers come courting a maid,420When the buds are blossoming,403When the night wind howls in the chimney cowl, and the bat inthe moonlight flies,381When you find you're a broken-down critter,506When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'dby anxiety,335Would you know the kind of maid,240ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO TITLESPageÆsthete, The,271Ah Me!,255Anglicised Utopia,497Annie Protheroe,280Ape and the Lady, The,123Appeal, An,143At a Pantomime,508A Worm will Turn,383Babette's Love,76Baby's Vengeance, The,265Baffled Grumbler, The,69Baines Carew, Gentleman,125Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum,549Bishop and the 'Busman, The,44Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The,108Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again, The,376Blue Blood,307Bob Polter,176Braid the Raven Hair,113Brave Alum Bey,317British Tar, The,204Bumboat Woman's Story, The,214Captain and the Mermaids, The,273Captain Reece,1Classical Revival, A,505Coming By-and-By, The,22Contemplative Sentry, The,292Cunning Woman, The,433Damonv.Pythias,363Darned Mounseer, The,6Disagreeable Man, The,16Disconcerted Tenor, The,547Discontented Sugar Broker, A,138Disillusioned,71Don't Forget!,345Duke and the Duchess, The,84Duke of Plaza-Toro, The,262Eheu Fugaces—!,92Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen,185Emily, John, James, and I,405English Girl, An,499Englishman, The,13Etiquette,541Fairy Curate, The,446Fairy Queen's Song, The,32Family Fool, The,161Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman,58Fickle Breeze, The,219First Lord's Song, The,227First Love,299Folly of "Brown, The,87Force of Argument, The,475General John,18Gentle Alice Brown,205Ghosts' High Noon, The,381Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin, The,148Girl Graduates,106Good Little Girls,482Great Oak Tree, The,418Gregory Parable, LL.D.294Haughty Actor, The,391Haunted,39He and She,361Heavy Dragoon, The,49He Loves!453Her Terms,534Highly Respectable Gondolier, The,26Hongree and Mahry,460House of Peers, The,74How it's Done,512Humane Mikado, The,388Independent Bee, The,536Is Life a Boon?38Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord's Daughter,528John and Freddy,28Judge's Song, The,315King Borria Bungalee Boo,155King Goodheart,424King of Canoodle-dum, The,301Lieutenant-Colonel Flare,248Life,487Life is Lovely all the Year,403Limited Liability,490Little Oliver,229Lorenzo de Lardy,64Lost Mr. Blake,256Love-sick Boy, The,439Magnet and the Churn, The,153Manager's Perplexities, A,504Man who would Woo a Fair Maid, A,209Martinet, The,338Merry Madrigal, A,81Merryman and his Maid, The,182Mighty Must, The,367Mirage, A,374Mister William,235Modern Major-General, The,42Modest Couple, The,330My Dream,368My Lady,471Mystic Selvagee, The,426National Anthem, The,526Nightmare, A,335Old Paul and Old Tim,420One against the World,473Only a Dancing Girl,14Only Roses,130Out of Sorts,506Pantomime "Super" to his Mask, The,144Pasha Bailey Ben,242Perils of Invisibility, The,413Periwinkle Girl, The,164Peter the Wag,193Phantom Curate, The,484Philosophic Pill, The,299Phrenology,440Played-out Humorist, The,553Poetry Everywhere,445Policeman's Lot, The,63Practical Joker, The,523Precocious Baby, The,114Proper Pride,56Put a Penny in the Slot,280Recipe, A,175Reverend Micah Sowls, The,467Reverend Simon Magus, The,356Reward of Merit, The,146Rival Curates, The,8Rover's Apology, The,136Said I to Myself, Said I,278Sailor Boy to his Lass, The,348Sans Souci,169Sensation Captain, The,492Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324Sir Guy the Crusader,34Sir Macklin,94Sleep on!431Solatium,329Sorcerer's Song, The,211Sorry her Lot,286Speculation,254Story of Prince Agib, The,518Suicide's Grave, The,354Susceptible Chancellor, The,191Tangled Skein, The,466Tempora Mutantur,501They'll None of 'em be Missed,99Thomas Winterbottom Hance,131Thomson Green and Harriet Hale,171Three Kings of Chickeraboo, The,200To a Little Maid,24To my Bride,82To Ph[oe]be,122To the Terrestrial Globe,539Troubadour, The,51True Diffidence,458Two Majors, The,399Two Ogres, The,221Unfortunate Likeness, An,287Usher's Charge, The,411Way of Wooing, The,454When a Merry Maiden Marries,198When I First Put this Uniform On,322Willow Waly!397Working Monarch, The,119Would you Know?240Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The,101THE END.Transcriber's Notes1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original positionas they appear in the source publication.
ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO TITLES
PageÆsthete, The,271Ah Me!,255Anglicised Utopia,497Annie Protheroe,280Ape and the Lady, The,123Appeal, An,143At a Pantomime,508A Worm will Turn,383Babette's Love,76Baby's Vengeance, The,265Baffled Grumbler, The,69Baines Carew, Gentleman,125Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum,549Bishop and the 'Busman, The,44Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The,108Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again, The,376Blue Blood,307Bob Polter,176Braid the Raven Hair,113Brave Alum Bey,317British Tar, The,204Bumboat Woman's Story, The,214Captain and the Mermaids, The,273Captain Reece,1Classical Revival, A,505Coming By-and-By, The,22Contemplative Sentry, The,292Cunning Woman, The,433Damonv.Pythias,363Darned Mounseer, The,6Disagreeable Man, The,16Disconcerted Tenor, The,547Discontented Sugar Broker, A,138Disillusioned,71Don't Forget!,345Duke and the Duchess, The,84Duke of Plaza-Toro, The,262Eheu Fugaces—!,92Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen,185Emily, John, James, and I,405English Girl, An,499Englishman, The,13Etiquette,541Fairy Curate, The,446Fairy Queen's Song, The,32Family Fool, The,161Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman,58Fickle Breeze, The,219First Lord's Song, The,227First Love,299Folly of "Brown, The,87Force of Argument, The,475General John,18Gentle Alice Brown,205Ghosts' High Noon, The,381Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin, The,148Girl Graduates,106Good Little Girls,482Great Oak Tree, The,418Gregory Parable, LL.D.294Haughty Actor, The,391Haunted,39He and She,361Heavy Dragoon, The,49He Loves!453Her Terms,534Highly Respectable Gondolier, The,26Hongree and Mahry,460House of Peers, The,74How it's Done,512Humane Mikado, The,388Independent Bee, The,536Is Life a Boon?38Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord's Daughter,528John and Freddy,28Judge's Song, The,315King Borria Bungalee Boo,155King Goodheart,424King of Canoodle-dum, The,301Lieutenant-Colonel Flare,248Life,487Life is Lovely all the Year,403Limited Liability,490Little Oliver,229Lorenzo de Lardy,64Lost Mr. Blake,256Love-sick Boy, The,439Magnet and the Churn, The,153Manager's Perplexities, A,504Man who would Woo a Fair Maid, A,209Martinet, The,338Merry Madrigal, A,81Merryman and his Maid, The,182Mighty Must, The,367Mirage, A,374Mister William,235Modern Major-General, The,42Modest Couple, The,330My Dream,368My Lady,471Mystic Selvagee, The,426National Anthem, The,526Nightmare, A,335Old Paul and Old Tim,420One against the World,473Only a Dancing Girl,14Only Roses,130Out of Sorts,506Pantomime "Super" to his Mask, The,144Pasha Bailey Ben,242Perils of Invisibility, The,413Periwinkle Girl, The,164Peter the Wag,193Phantom Curate, The,484Philosophic Pill, The,299Phrenology,440Played-out Humorist, The,553Poetry Everywhere,445Policeman's Lot, The,63Practical Joker, The,523Precocious Baby, The,114Proper Pride,56Put a Penny in the Slot,280Recipe, A,175Reverend Micah Sowls, The,467Reverend Simon Magus, The,356Reward of Merit, The,146Rival Curates, The,8Rover's Apology, The,136Said I to Myself, Said I,278Sailor Boy to his Lass, The,348Sans Souci,169Sensation Captain, The,492Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324Sir Guy the Crusader,34Sir Macklin,94Sleep on!431Solatium,329Sorcerer's Song, The,211Sorry her Lot,286Speculation,254Story of Prince Agib, The,518Suicide's Grave, The,354Susceptible Chancellor, The,191Tangled Skein, The,466Tempora Mutantur,501They'll None of 'em be Missed,99Thomas Winterbottom Hance,131Thomson Green and Harriet Hale,171Three Kings of Chickeraboo, The,200To a Little Maid,24To my Bride,82To Ph[oe]be,122To the Terrestrial Globe,539Troubadour, The,51True Diffidence,458Two Majors, The,399Two Ogres, The,221Unfortunate Likeness, An,287Usher's Charge, The,411Way of Wooing, The,454When a Merry Maiden Marries,198When I First Put this Uniform On,322Willow Waly!397Working Monarch, The,119Would you Know?240Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The,101THE END.Transcriber's Notes1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original positionas they appear in the source publication.
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Transcriber's Notes1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original positionas they appear in the source publication.
Transcriber's Notes
1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.
2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original positionas they appear in the source publication.