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BALLADES OF A COUNTRY

BOOKWORM.

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Ballades

AND OTHER RHYMES

OF

A Country Bookworm

BY

THOMAS HUTCHINSON

In the work-a-day world,-for its needs and woes,
There is place and enough for the pains of prose;
But whenever the May-bells clash and chime,
Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!

-AUSTIN DOBSON.

LONDON:

STANESBY & CO., 179, SLOANE STREET, S.W.

(FORMERLY MURRAY & STANESBY).

DERBY AND NOTTINGHAM:

FRANK MURRAY.

1888.