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Fifty Bab Ballads

by W. S. Gilbert

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Captain Reece
  3. 3The Rival Curates
  4. 4Only a Dancing Girl
  5. 5To a Little Maid — By a Policeman
  6. 6The Troubadour
  7. 7Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman
  8. 8Part II
  9. 9To My Bride (Whoever She May Be.)
  10. 10Sir Macklin
  11. 11The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”
  12. 12The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo
  13. 13The Precocious Baby — A Very True Tale
  14. 14To Phœbe
  15. 15Baines Carew, Gentleman
  16. 16Thomas Winterbottom Hance
  17. 17A Discontented Sugar Broker
  18. 18The Pantomime “Super” to His Mask
  19. 19The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin
  20. 20The Phantom Curate — A Fable
  21. 21King Borria Bungalee Boo
  22. 22Bob Polter
  23. 23The Story of Prince Agib
  24. 24Ellen McJones Aberdeen
  25. 25Peter the Wag
  26. 26To the Terrestrial Globe. By a Miserable Wretch
  27. 27Gentle Alice Brown
  28. 28Mister William
  29. 29The Bumboat Woman’s Story
  30. 30Lost Mr. Blake
  31. 31The Baby’s Vengeance
  32. 32The Captain and the Mermaids
  33. 33Annie Protheroe — A Legend of Stratford-le-Bow
  34. 34An Unfortunate Likeness
  35. 35The King of Canoodle-Dum
  36. 36The Martinet
  37. 37The Sailor Boy to His Lass
  38. 38The Reverend Simon Magus
  39. 39My Dream
  40. 40The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo Again
  41. 41The Haughty Actor
  42. 42The Two Majors
  43. 43Emily, John, James, and I. — A Derby Legend
  44. 44The Perils of Invisibility
  45. 45The Mystic Selvagee
  46. 46Phrenology
  47. 47The Fairy Curate
  48. 48The Way of Wooing
  49. 49Hongree and Mahry — A Recollection of a Surrey Melodrama
  50. 50Etiquette
  51. 51At a Pantomime. By a Bilious One
  52. 52Haunted

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