_Catharine M. Fanshawe_ 535
The Lay of the Love-Lorn _Aytoun and Martin_ 537
Only Seven _Henry S. Leigh_ 543
'Twas Ever Thus _Henry S. Leigh_ 544
Foam and Fangs _Walter Parke_ 544

X: NARRATIVE

Little Billee _W. M. Thackeray_ 546
The Crystal Palace _W. M. Thackeray_ 547
The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and
Mary Brown _W. M. Thackeray_ 552
King John and the Abbot _Unknown_ 554
On the Death of a Favorite Cat _Thomas Gray_ 557
Misadventures at Margate _Richard Harris Barham_ 558
["_Thomas Ingoldsby_"]
The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger _Horace Smith_ 563
The Diverting History of John Gilpin _William Cowper_ 564
Paddy O'Rafther _Samuel Lover_ 571
Here She Goes and There She Goes _James Nack_ 572
The Quaker's Meeting _Samuel Lover_ 576
The Jester Condemned to Death _Horace Smith_ 578
The Deacon's Masterpiece _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 580
The Ballad of the Oysterman _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 583
The Well of St. Keyne _Robert Southey_ 584
The Jackdaw of Rheims _Richard Harris Barham_ 586
["_Thomas Ingoldsby_"]
The Knight and the Lady _Richard Harris Barham_ 590
["_Thomas Ingoldsby_"]
An Eastern Question _H. M. Paull_ 598
My Aunt's Spectre _Mortimer Collins_ 600
Casey at the Bat _Ernest Lawrence Thayer_ 601
The Pied Piper of Hamelin _Robert Browning_ 603
The Goose _Lord Tennyson_ 611
The Ballad of Charity _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 613
The Post Captain _Charles E. Carryl_ 615
Robinson Crusoe's Story _Charles E. Carryl_ 617
Ben Bluff _Thoma