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Story-Telling Ballads

by Frances Jenkins Olcott

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  1. 1Dedication — The Foreword
  2. 2Teachers, Story-Tellers, and Ballads
  3. 3Youth in the Ballads
  4. 4How the Ballads Grew
  5. 5Making a Collection for Children
  6. 6Acknowledgments
  7. 7The Salt Blue Seas
  8. 8Sir Patrick Spens
  9. 9The Dæmon Lover
  10. 10Part I
  11. 11Part II
  12. 12Part III
  13. 13A-Harrowing o’ the Border — The Galloway Raid
  14. 14Part I
  15. 15Part II
  16. 16The Ballad of Meikle-Mouthed Meg
  17. 17The Raid
  18. 18The Gallows or Marriage
  19. 19Young Willie’s Messenger
  20. 20The Gallows-Tree
  21. 21Belted Will
  22. 22The Trap o’ Belted Will
  23. 23The Grizzly Dwarf
  24. 24Brave Hearts and Proud
  25. 25Lady Clare
  26. 26Proud Lady Margaret
  27. 27Part I
  28. 28Part II
  29. 29Part I
  30. 30Part II
  31. 31The Greeting of Kynast
  32. 32Lays o’ Faërie — The Fairy Tempter
  33. 33Alice Brand
  34. 34II
  35. 35III
  36. 36The Erl-King
  37. 37The Erl-King Speaks
  38. 38The Erl-King Speaks Again
  39. 39The Erl-King Speaks Again
  40. 40The Fairy Thorn
  41. 41La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  42. 42Thomas the Rhymer
  43. 43Part I
  44. 44Part II
  45. 45Kilmeny
  46. 46Lays o’ Wonder — The Wee Wee Man
  47. 47Part I
  48. 48Part II
  49. 49Kemp Owyne
  50. 50Part I
  51. 51Part II
  52. 52Part III
  53. 53Part IV
  54. 54The Singing Leaves
  55. 55II
  56. 56III
  57. 57The Luck of Edenhall
  58. 58Part I
  59. 59Part II
  60. 60Part III
  61. 61Part I
  62. 62Part II
  63. 63Part III
  64. 64Part IV
  65. 65Merry Gestes
  66. 66Little Billee
  67. 67Brian O’Linn
  68. 68Dicky of Ballyman
  69. 69The Ballad of the Oysterman
  70. 70The Cinder King
  71. 71The Frolicksome Duke; or, the Tinker’s Good Fortune
  72. 72King James the First and the Tinkler
  73. 73King Alfred and the Shepherd — Part I — Wherein King Alfred Fights…
  74. 74Part II — Wherein King Alfred Becomes — A Shepherd
  75. 75Part III — Wherein King Alfred Burns the Cakes
  76. 76Part IV — Wherein King Alfred Blows His Bugle-Horn
  77. 77Sad Gestes — The Sands of Dee
  78. 78Part I
  79. 79Part II
  80. 80The Cruel Sister
  81. 81Barbara Allen’s Cruelty
  82. 82Song: Earl March Looked on His Dying Child
  83. 83Lord Lovel
  84. 84Pretty Mays and Knights So Bold — The Noble Riddle
  85. 85Part I
  86. 86Part II
  87. 87Glenara
  88. 88The Beggar-Maid
  89. 89Lochinvar
  90. 90Part I
  91. 91Part II
  92. 92Part III
  93. 93Part I
  94. 94Part II
  95. 95Part III
  96. 96Hynd Horn
  97. 97Part I
  98. 98Part II
  99. 99Part I
  100. 100Part II
  101. 101Part III
  102. 102For Halloween and Midsummer Eve — The Spell
  103. 103Part I
  104. 104Part II
  105. 105The Wife of Usher’s Well
  106. 106Sir Roland
  107. 107The Skeleton in Armour
  108. 108Sweet William’s Ghost
  109. 109Part I
  110. 110Part II
  111. 111Part III
  112. 112All Under the Greenwood Tree
  113. 113Robin Hood and Little John
  114. 114Robin Hood and Clorinda
  115. 115Part I
  116. 116Part II
  117. 117Part III
  118. 118Part IV
  119. 119Part I
  120. 120Part II
  121. 121Part III
  122. 122Part IV
  123. 123O’ Pilgrimage and Souls So Strong — The Pilgrim
  124. 124Part I
  125. 125Part II
  126. 126Part III
  127. 127Barclay of Ury
  128. 128The Touchstone
  129. 129Sir Galahad
  130. 130Pilgrimage
  131. 131The Royal Court
  132. 132True Valour
  133. 133Peace
  134. 134The Three Kings
  135. 135Appendix
  136. 136The Ballads in This Book
  137. 137Programme for a Year of Ballad-Reading and Study
  138. 138Course for Forty Weeks — One Period a Week
  139. 139Programme for an Entertainment
  140. 140For Librarians and Social Workers
  141. 141Glossary and Indexes

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