In 1856, a small shilling volume of 120 pages was published by George Routledge and Co., as a companion to Longfellow's Hiawatha. This was entitled, "The Song of Drop o' Wather, a London legend, by Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow," and is now scarce. It commences thus:—
APOLOGY FOR THERE BEING NO PREFACE.
AUTHOR (considering). "People expect a preface; and this is the place for one. But there is no preface in the great 'Indian Edda' which has occasioned this poem. The author of that work gives his explanation to the public in the Notes and Vocabulary; then, of course, mine also, ought (and is) to be found in the Notes and Vocabulary to 'The Song of Drop o' Wather.'"
Then follow the contents, consisting of an Introduction and thirteen chapters, namely:—
I. Drop o' Wather's Childhood.
II. Drop o' Wather and Pudgy-Wheezy.
III. Drop o' Wather's Fasting.
IV. Drop o' Wather's Friends.
V. Drop o' Wather's Filching.
VI. Drop o' Wather's Wooing.