Page
A Bishop once—I will not name his see,484
A British tar is a soaring soul,204
A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt,309
A gentleman of City fame,138
A hive of bees, as I've heard say,536
A lady fair, of lineage high,123
A leafy cot, where no dry rot,294
Although of native maids the cream,482
A magnet hung in a hardware shop,153
A maiden sat at her window wide,454
A man who would woo a fair maid,209
A monarch is pestered with cares,526
A more humane Mikado never,388
An actor—Gibbs, of Drury Lane,391
An actor sits in doubtful gloom,508
An elderly person—a prophet by trade,114
An excellent soldier who's worthy the name,399
A proud Pasha was Bailey Ben,242
A rich advowson, highly prized,356
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,99
At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper,58
A tar, but poorly prized,528
A tenor, all singers above,547
A Troubadour he played,51
At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention,515
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,499
Babette she was a fisher gal,76
Bedecked in fashion trim,471
Bob Polter was a navvy, and,176
Bold-faced ranger,512
Braid the raven hair,113
Brightly dawns our wedding day,81
Come, collar this bad man,440
Come mighty Must!,367
Come with me, little maid!,24
Comes a train of little ladies,254
Comes the broken flower,329
Dalilah de Dardy adored,64
Dr. Belville was regarded as the Crichton of his age,146
Earl Joyce he was a kind old party,229
Emily Jane was a nursery maid,405
Fear no unlicensed entry,431
First you're born—and I'll be bound you,487
From east and south the holy clan,108
Gentle, modest, little flower,122
Good children, list, if you're inclined,221
Haunted? Ay, in a social way,39
He is an Englishman!,13
He loves! If in the bygone years,453
I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,42
I cannot tell what this love may be,169
If my action's stiff and crude,480
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am,16
If you're anxious to shine in the high æsthetic line, as a man of
   culture rare,		271
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,49
I go away, this blessed day,348
I have a song to sing, O!182
I knew a boor—a clownish card, 87
I know a youth who loves a little maid, 361
I love a man who'll smile and joke, 383
I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief, 214
In all the towns and cities fair, 131
In enterprise of martial kind, 262
I often wonder whether you, 376
I once did know a Turkish man, 549
I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop, 6
I sing a legend of the sea, 273
Is life a boon? 38
I stole the Prince, and I brought him here, 26
It's my opinion—though I own, 473
It was a Bishop bold, 44
It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown, 205
I've often thought that headstrong youths, 164
I've painted Shakespeare all my life, 287
I've wisdom from the East and from the West, 299
John courted lovely Mary Ann, 28
King Borria Bungalee Boo, 155
Letters, letters, letters, letters! 501
List while the poet trolls, 8
Lord B. was a nobleman bold, 475
Macphairson Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan, 185
Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner, 256
My boy, you may take it from me, 458
My wedded life, 534
No nobler captain ever trod, 492
Now, Jurymen, hear my advice, 411
Now, Marco, dear, 345
O'er unreclaimed suburban clays, 148
Of all the good attorneys who, 125
Of all the ships upon the blue, 1
Of all the youths I ever saw, 94
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, 161
Oh, big was the bosom of brave Alum Bey, 317
Oh, foolish fay, 32
Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray, 136
Oh! is there not one maiden breast, 143
Oh! listen to the tale of little Annie Protheroe, 280
Oh, listen to the tale of Mister William, if you please, 235
Oh, list to this incredible tale, 171
Oh! little maid!—(I do not know your name), 82
Oh! my name is John Wellington Wells, 211
Oh, that my soul its gods could see, 71
Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes! 523
Old Peter led a wretched life, 413
On all Arcadia's sunny plain, 433
On a tree by a river a little tomtit, 354
Once a fairy, 446
Only a dancing girl, 14
Perhaps already you may know, 426
Policeman Peter Forth I drag, 193
Prithee, pretty maiden—prithee, tell me true, 397
Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is 553
Rising early in the morning, 119
Roll on, thou ball, roll on! 539
Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year, 22
Sighing softly to the river, 219
Sir Guy was a doughty crusader, 34
Small titles and orders, 84
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, 497
Some seven men form an Association, 490
Some time ago, in simple verse, 338
Sorry her lot who loves too well, 286
Spurn not the nobly born, 307
Strike the concertina's melancholy string, 518
Take a pair of sparkling eyes, 175
The air is charged with amatory numbers, 92
The Ballyshannon foundered off the coast of Cariboo, 541
The bravest names for fire and flames, 18
The earth has armies plenty, 248
The law is the true embodiment, 191
The other night, from cares exempt, 368
There grew a little flower, 418
There lived a King, as I've been told, 424
The Reverend Micah Sowls, 467
There were three niggers of Chickeraboo, 200
The story of Frederick Gowler, 301
The sun was setting in its wonted west, 460
The Sun, whose rays, 56
They intend to send a wire, 106
This is Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo, 324
To a garden full of posies, 130
Try we life-long, we can never, 466
'Twas on the shores that round our coast, 101
Two better friends you wouldn't pass, 363
Vast, empty shell! 144
Weary at heart and extremely ill, 265
Were I a king in very truth, 504
Were I thy bride, 374
What time the poet hath hymned, 445
When a felon's not engaged in his employment, 63
When all night long a chap remains, 292
When a merry maiden marries, 198
When Britain really ruled the waves, 74
Whene'er I poke sarcastic joke, 69
When first my old, old love I knew, 439
When I first put this uniform on, 322
When I, good friends, was called to the Bar, 315
When I was a lad I served a term, 227
When I went to the Bar as a very young man, 278
When maiden loves, she sits and sighs, 255
When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye, 330
When rival adorers come courting a maid, 420
When the buds are blossoming, 403
When the night wind howls in the chimney cowl, and the bat in
   the moonlight flies, 		381
When you find you're a broken-down critter, 506
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd
   by anxiety, 		335
Would you know the kind of maid, 240

ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO TITLES

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Æsthete, The,271
Ah Me!,255
Anglicised Utopia,497
Annie Protheroe,280
Ape and the Lady, The,123
Appeal, An,143
At a Pantomime,508
A Worm will Turn,383
Babette's Love,76
Baby's Vengeance, The,265
Baffled Grumbler, The,69
Baines Carew, Gentleman,125
Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum,549
Bishop and the 'Busman, The,44
Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The,108
Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again, The,376
Blue Blood,307
Bob Polter,176
Braid the Raven Hair,113
Brave Alum Bey,317
British Tar, The,204
Bumboat Woman's Story, The,214
Captain and the Mermaids, The,273
Captain Reece,1
Classical Revival, A,505
Coming By-and-By, The,22
Contemplative Sentry, The,292
Cunning Woman, The,433
Damon v. Pythias,363
Darned Mounseer, The,6
Disagreeable Man, The,16
Disconcerted Tenor, The,547
Discontented Sugar Broker, A,138
Disillusioned,71
Don't Forget!,345
Duke and the Duchess, The,84
Duke of Plaza-Toro, The,262
Eheu Fugaces—!,92
Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen,185
Emily, John, James, and I,405
English Girl, An,499
Englishman, The,13
Etiquette,541
Fairy Curate, The,446
Fairy Queen's Song, The,32
Family Fool, The,161
Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman,58
Fickle Breeze, The,219
First Lord's Song, The,227
First Love,299
Folly of "Brown, The,87
Force of Argument, The,475
General John,18
Gentle Alice Brown,205
Ghosts' High Noon, The,381
Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin, The,148
Girl Graduates,106
Good Little Girls,482
Great Oak Tree, The,418
Gregory Parable, LL.D.294
Haughty Actor, The,391
Haunted,39
He and She,361
Heavy Dragoon, The,49
He Loves!453
Her Terms,534
Highly Respectable Gondolier, The,26
Hongree and Mahry,460
House of Peers, The,74
How it's Done,512
Humane Mikado, The,388
Independent Bee, The,536
Is Life a Boon?38
Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord's Daughter,528
John and Freddy,28
Judge's Song, The,315
King Borria Bungalee Boo,155
King Goodheart,424
King of Canoodle-dum, The,301
Lieutenant-Colonel Flare,248
Life,487
Life is Lovely all the Year,403
Limited Liability,490
Little Oliver,229
Lorenzo de Lardy,64
Lost Mr. Blake,256
Love-sick Boy, The,439
Magnet and the Churn, The,153
Manager's Perplexities, A,504
Man who would Woo a Fair Maid, A,209
Martinet, The,338
Merry Madrigal, A,81
Merryman and his Maid, The,182
Mighty Must, The,367
Mirage, A,374
Mister William,235
Modern Major-General, The,42
Modest Couple, The,330
My Dream,368
My Lady,471
Mystic Selvagee, The,426
National Anthem, The,526
Nightmare, A,335
Old Paul and Old Tim,420
One against the World,473
Only a Dancing Girl,14
Only Roses,130
Out of Sorts,506
Pantomime "Super" to his Mask, The,144
Pasha Bailey Ben,242
Perils of Invisibility, The,413
Periwinkle Girl, The,164
Peter the Wag,193
Phantom Curate, The,484
Philosophic Pill, The,299
Phrenology,440
Played-out Humorist, The,553
Poetry Everywhere,445
Policeman's Lot, The,63
Practical Joker, The,523
Precocious Baby, The,114
Proper Pride,56
Put a Penny in the Slot,280
Recipe, A,175
Reverend Micah Sowls, The,467
Reverend Simon Magus, The,356
Reward of Merit, The,146
Rival Curates, The,8
Rover's Apology, The,136
Said I to Myself, Said I,278
Sailor Boy to his Lass, The,348
Sans Souci,169
Sensation Captain, The,492
Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,324
Sir Guy the Crusader,34
Sir Macklin,94
Sleep on!431
Solatium,329
Sorcerer's Song, The,211
Sorry her Lot,286
Speculation,254
Story of Prince Agib, The,518
Suicide's Grave, The,354
Susceptible Chancellor, The,191
Tangled Skein, The,466
Tempora Mutantur,501
They'll None of 'em be Missed,99
Thomas Winterbottom Hance,131
Thomson Green and Harriet Hale,171
Three Kings of Chickeraboo, The,200
To a Little Maid,24
To my Bride,82
To Ph[oe]be,122
To the Terrestrial Globe,539
Troubadour, The,51
True Diffidence,458
Two Majors, The,399
Two Ogres, The,221
Unfortunate Likeness, An,287
Usher's Charge, The,411
Way of Wooing, The,454
When a Merry Maiden Marries,198
When I First Put this Uniform On,322
Willow Waly!397
Working Monarch, The,119
Would you Know?240
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The,101

THE END.

Transcriber's Notes

1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.

2.Some illustrations have been moved from their original position
   as they appear in the source publication.