About this book
This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses. (Summary by Graham Redman)
Chapters (12)
1Mister William
2The Bumboat Woman's Story
3The Two Ogres
4Little Oliver
5Pasha Bailey Ben
6Lieutenant-Colonel Flare
7Lost Mr. Blake
8The Baby's Vengeance
9The Captain And The Mermaids
10Annie Protheroe. A Legend of Stratford-Le-Bow
11An Unfortunate Likeness
12Gregory Parable, LL.D.
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