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57 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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* Specimens Of "Homely Ballads." I>Kiven...
ever , the book was a stranger to us , it might still be so to many readers . We turned again to tlie ballad , and continued onr reading .
'' I was "When in Mistress this condition Groldiman once , Came in her carriagejust to see
, M Her word humble ! I cannot servant tell , Anne how ; y My blood both leapt and you ran .
tl Her face was like an apple-bloom , Her eyes like bits of sky ;
Her shotten silk of pink and green And She held lifted her daintil hand y ; like a up queen ,
So mighty , grand , and high . " Her Disp little layed bonnet her golden , made of hair lace ; al ,
The flowers look'd all so natur , Oh They U , pon deary mi my me ght smutty ! have she could chair blossom . not 'd sit there .
" 9 r _* TP _TT 'ft * "ft * * ' She Reproach cast a freezing was in her look tone around ; ,
She lectured me on many things And I She should many said I have other mig left ht things have alone , she done . said ; ,
'' She She And hoped shoul alway d the herself s children kept inq to uiry clmrch "went mak to , e school ,
And Of then honest she Mr look . Birch 'd as ; though she'd brought A warrant for a search .
" She felt herself quite mortified She To could find me not in understand this way , the things
She That could working not _peoj athise ) le say at ; all symp , And so she went away .
'' And Iwho really do believe That , women , weak and in poor the , week
Who , with debts ten outside shillings the door , Are Keep hih and noble-heartedthen ,
Felt g spiritless and sore . , " The worst that I would take
revenge , Would The onl be y that one I Mistress 'd seek , Groldiman Should manage , here a week ;
Andafter that experience , I'd , like to hear her speak . " Wellthat ballad was good ! We gave a shilling for the
humblelooking events worth , little that volume sum , de ; e and min , g this Tain one having " Homel ceased y Ballad its violenc " at all e ,
57 Notices Of Books.
57 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/57/
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