Identifier: storytellingball00olco (find matches)
Title: Story-telling ballads, selected and arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the boys' and girls' own reading
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Subjects: Ballads, English
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ve and trough to view. This fact now Duncan Frasier, Of Cheviot, sings in rhyme, Lest Bambroughshire men should forget Some part of it in time. MERRY GESTES A TRAGIC STORY There lived a sage in days of yore. And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much, and sorrowed more. Because it hung behind him. He mused upon this curious case. And swore he'd change the pigtails place. And have it hanging at his face. Not dangling there behind him. Says he, The mystery I ve found, I'll turn me round, He turned him round; But still it hung behind him. Then round and round, and out and in. All day the puzzled sage did spin; In vain — it mattered not a pin —The pigtail hung behind him. And right, and left, and round about.And up, and down, and in, and outHe turned; but still the pigtail stoutHung steadily behind him. And though his efforts never slack.And though he twist, and twirl, and tack, Alas! still faithful to his back. The pigtail hangs behind him. William Makepeace Thackeray From Chamisso
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HE TURNED HIM ROUND; BUT STILL IT HUNG BEHIND HIM. LITTLE BILLEE There were three sailors of Bristol city. Who took a boat and went to sea. But first with beef and captains biscuits And pickled pork they loaded she. There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy, And the youngest he was little Billee. Now when they got as far as the Equator They'd nothing left but one split pea. Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy, I am extremely hungaree. To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy, Weve nothing left, us must eat we. Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy, With one another we should not agree! Theres little Bill, he's young and tender. Were old and tough, so lets eat he. Oh! Billy, were going to kill and eat you. So undo the button of your chemie. When Bill received this information, He used his pocket handkerchief 160 STORY-TELLING BALLADS First let me say my catechism. Which my poor mammy taught to me. Make haste, make haste, says guzzling Jimmy, While Jack pulled out his snickersnee. So Billy went up to the main top-

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