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The Bab Ballads

The Bab Ballads

by W. S. Gilbert

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Author
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911
Credits
Transcribed from the 1920 Macmillan and Co. edition of “The Bab Ballads” (also from “Fifty Bab Ballads” 1884 George Routledge and Sons edition) by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Humorous poetry, English
Category
Text
eBook-No.
931
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/931
Release Date
June 1, 1997
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Bab Ballads
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.CAPTAIN REECE
  4. 4.THE RIVAL CURATES
  5. 5.ONLY A DANCING GIRL
  6. 6.GENERAL JOHN
  7. 7.TO A LITTLE MAID BY A POLICEMAN
  8. 8.JOHN AND FREDDY
  9. 9.SIR GUY THE CRUSADER
  10. 10.HAUNTED
  11. 11.THE BISHOP AND THE ’BUSMAN
  12. 12.THE TROUBADOUR
  13. 13.FERDINANDO AND ELVIRA OR, THE GENTLE PIEMAN — PART I. — PART II.
  14. 14.LORENZO DE LARDY
  15. 15.DISILLUSIONED BY AN EX-ENTHUSIAST
  16. 16.BABETTE’S LOVE
  17. 17.TO MY BRIDE (WHOEVER SHE MAY BE)
  18. 18.THE FOLLY OF BROWN By a General Agent
  19. 19.SIR MACKLIN
  20. 20.THE YARN OF THE “NANCY BELL”
  21. 21.THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO
  22. 22.THE PRECOCIOUS BABY. A VERY TRUE TALE
  23. 23.TO PHŒBE
  24. 24.BAINES CAREW, GENTLEMAN
  25. 25.THOMAS WINTERBOTTOM HANCE
  26. 26.THE REVEREND MICAH SOWLS
  27. 27.A DISCONTENTED SUGAR BROKER
  28. 28.THE PANTOMIME “SUPER” TO HIS MASK
  29. 29.THE FORCE OF ARGUMENT
  30. 30.THE GHOST, THE GALLANT, THE GAEL, AND THE GOBLIN
  31. 31.THE PHANTOM CURATE. A FABLE
  32. 32.THE SENSATION CAPTAIN
  33. 33.TEMPORA MUTANTUR
  34. 34.AT A PANTOMIME. BY A BILIOUS ONE
  35. 35.KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO
  36. 36.THE PERIWINKLE GIRL
  37. 37.THOMSON GREEN AND HARRIET HALE
  38. 38.BOB POLTER
  39. 39.THE STORY OF PRINCE AGIB
  40. 40.ELLEN M‘JONES ABERDEEN
  41. 41.PETER THE WAG
  42. 42.BEN ALLAH ACHMET; OR, THE FATAL TUM
  43. 43.THE THREE KINGS OF CHICKERABOO
  44. 44.JOE GOLIGHTLY OR, THE FIRST LORD’S DAUGHTER
  45. 45.TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. BY A MISERABLE WRETCH
  46. 46.GENTLE ALICE BROWN

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