Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
THE DALBY BEAR
and other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
THE DALBY BEAR
There goes a bear on Dalby moors,
Oxen and horses he devours.
The peasants are in deep distress
The laidly bear should them oppress.
Their heads together at length they lay,
How they the bear might seize and slay.
They drove their porkers through the wood,
The bear turn’d round as he lay at food.
Outspoke as best he could the bear:
“What kind of guests approach my lair?”