CONTENTS

CONTENTS

PAGE

Captain Reece

1

The Rival Curates

8

Only a Dancing Girl

14

General John

18

To a Little Maid

24

John and Freddy

28

Sir Guy the Crusader

34

Haunted

39

The Bishop and the ’Busman

44

The Troubadour

51

Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman

58

Lorenzo de Lardy

64

Disillusioned

71

Babette’s Love

76

To my Bride

82

The Folly of Brown

84

Sir Macklin

94

The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”

101

The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo

108

The Precocious Baby

114

To Phœbe

122

Baines Carew, Gentleman

125

Thomas Winterbottom Hance

131

The Reverend Micah Sowls

467

A Discontented Sugar Broker

138

The Pantomime “Super” to his Mask

144

The Force of Argument

475

The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin

148

The Phantom Curate

484

The Sensation Captain

492

Tempora Mutantur

501

At A Pantomime

508

King Borria Bungalee Boo

155

The Periwinkle Girl

164

Thomson Green and Harriet Hale

171

Bob Polter

176

The Story of Prince Agib

518

Ellen M‘Jones Aberdeen

185

Peter the Wag

193

Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum

549

The Three Kings of Chickeraboo

200

Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord’s Daughter

528

To the Terrestrial Globe

539

Gentle Alice Brown

205