For ballade-mongering is killing.
Gleeson White.
Judy. October 5, 1887.
The following well known Ballade originally appeared in Mr. Andrew Lang’s Ballades in Blue China, the first (1880) edition of which is so much prized by collectors.
BALLADE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
He lived in a cave by the seas,
He lived upon oysters and foes,
But his list of forbidden degrees
An extensive morality shows;