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The Spook Ballads

The Spook Ballads

by William Theodore Parkes

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Author
Parkes, William Theodore, -1908
Credits
Produced by Irma Spehar, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Supernatural -- Poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
42566
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42566
Release Date
April 20, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber's Note — THE SPOOK BALLADS. — THE SPOOK BALLADS
  2. 2.CONTENTS. — BOHEMIANS, HAIL! — THE GHOSTS OF HAMPTON COURT — YE FILIAL SACRAFICE — MADAM STIFFIN'S GHOST — SONNET ON PARTING — HIS BOUQUET — THE GIRL OF CASTLEBAR — THE GERMAN BAND — OUT OF PLUMB. — A WARD IN THE CHANCERIE — THE FAIRY QUEEN — THE DEVIL IN RICHMOND PARK — SAVED! — A MOST REMARKABLE CASE — A TOUR TO SVITSERLAND — JOY! ON SEEING A FLYING SPRING. — THE MATE OF THE MARY ANNE — AN UMBRELLA CASE. — THE SPOOK OF ROTTEN ROW — THE MAGIC SPECS — YE CURIOUS TAYLE OF YE UNCIVIL FIGHT OF YE CIVIL WARRE — LEATHER VERSUS LAW — HEADS AND TAILS — THE COLONEL AND THE COOK — THE SPIRIT THAT HELD HIM DOWN — HIS FUTURE STATE. — A FIGHT IN THE PHŒNIX PARK — THE ABDICATED CROWN. — TEARS-IN-LAW — HE FOLLOWED THE FOX — THE HONEST YOUNG CASHIER — THE ROAD TO LONDON — ANTEDILUVIAN PAT O'TOOLE AND ALL HIS FLEET OF SAIL — SONNET ON SHARES. — THE LUCKY SIXPENCE — A WALL FLOWER SONNET. — PARADOXICAL WORDS — A CANTABILE ON MUSIC, ART, AND LAW. — WOMAN'S TEARS. — HERADIC FRUITS OF A FAMILY TREE — THE POLIS AND THE PRINCESS GRANAUILLE — A HORROR OF LONDON TOWN. — A CONFIDENTIAL SONNET — A TRAM CAR GHOST. — MARGATE SANDS. — JOHN MC KUNE — I'LL GO FOR A SOJER. — ODE HERE! — THE SMUGGLER'S FATE — THE LATE FITZ-BINKS. — A FUGITIVE KISS. — THE BEDROOM CURSE AND THE MURDERED COCKATOO — A GUN SOLO. — THE SEMI-GRAND PIANO — CANTICRANK. — CAUGHT IN THE BREACH. — A KLEPTOMANIAC'S DOOM. — AN ILL WIND BLEW HIM GOOD! — THE GHOST OF HIRAM SMIKE. — WHY DID YE DIE? — A PRETTY LITTLE LAND I KNOW — HOW THEY ENLIST — THE KINDERGARTEN WAY.
  3. 3.OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE BARNEY BRADEY BROCHURES BY WM. THEODORE PARKES.

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