From Ballades of a Country Bookworm. By Thomas Hutchinson. London, Stanesby & Co. 1888.


Some years ago Mr. Austin Dobson wrote a few comical Triolets, which appeared in “Hood’s Comic Annual.” These have not been included in recent English editions of his poems—which is to be regretted.

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Rondel.

You bet! you hear me. I tell you

I, Whistler, Sir, has fetched this town

Onto a copper, a renown,

He scratches in, Sir; yes a few!

Your critics they may hop the flue,