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Tables of Contents for A Book of Scattered Leaves
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
293
6
Anthology, Part 2: The Poor
Beggars and Paupers
299
20
Introduction
299
4
Ballads and Commentaries
303
16
The Beggar: c. 1791--92*
303
2
The Beggar Girl: c. 1802*
305
3
The Merry Will & Testament of Master Black Billy: 1823*
308
3
The Pauper's Drive: 1841 or before
311
2
The Beggar's Lament: 1849*
313
4
As I Wandered by the Cook Shop: 1855 or before*
317
2
Children on the Street
319
13
Introduction
319
1
Ballads and Commentaries
319
13
The Match Song: early 1800s*
320
2
Little Jessey, the Poor Flower Girl: 1838*†
322
1
The Child's Inquiry: 1853--55?*
323
2
The Poor Lost Child Restored to His Mother:: 1855?*
325
3
The Policeman's Pet: 1860s*
328
4
Criminals
332
42
Introduction
332
6
Ballads and Commentaries
338
36
The Last Sorrowful Lamentation of a Boy under Twelve Years of Age: 1826*
338
5
The Mill: 1830--35*
343
4
Very Respectable: c. 1831†
347
2
Ax My Eye: 1834--35*†
349
3
The Cove Vot Has Seen Better Days: 1830--37*
352
2
Parson Brown's Sheep: 1835--40*
354
3
Farewell Address to Their Countrymen and Friends: 1842
357
4
After Serving Seven Years: 1840*†
361
1
The Dreadful Murder of a Wife and Six Children: 1869*
362
12
People In and Out of Work
374
37
Introduction
374
7
Ballads and Commentaries
381
30
Turn the Carpet: 1796*
381
3
Joan o' Grinfield: c. 1815
384
3
John Taylor, Cotton Spinner..., Being Out of Employ: c. 1827?*
387
2
Bill Bounce, the Swell Cove Out of Luck: c. 1831*†
389
3
The Dead Alive: c. 1830*
392
1
The Pitman's Widow's Lament: c. 1835*
393
3
The White Slave: c. 1835*
396
3
Naked Truth: c. 1838*
399
3
The Lucky Factory Boy: 1830s?*
402
1
The Factory Child: 1840--41*†
403
2
Stitch Goes the Needle: 1840s*
405
2
The Hungry Army: c. 1852*
407
1
God Speed the Good Ship; or, the English Emigrant!: c. 1855
408
3
Maidens and Lovers
411
41
Introduction
411
4
Ballads and Commentaries
415
37
Squire and Milkmaid: or, Blackberry Fold: early 1800s
415
6
Poverty's No Sin: c. 1815*
421
1
The Fancy Lad: 1817--25
422
3
The Dogs-Meat Man: c. 1824*
425
7
The Weaver's Daughter: 1820s*
432
1
Advice to Country Maidens on the Poor Law Bill: 1834*
433
3
Artichokes & Cauliflowers: 1830s
436
2
Rigs and Flares-Up of the Fair: 1837*
438
2
The Lady and the Welsh Ploughboy: c. 1840?*
440
5
The Village Beauty: 1840s--1850s*
445
3
Oh, Ain't I Nuts on Sarah: c. 1860*
448
1
Polly Perkins, of Paddington Green: c. 1865
449
3
Husbands and Wives
452
28
Introduction
452
6
Ballads and Commentaries
458
22
Love and Liver: c. 1832*
458
2
Struggle for the Breeches: c. 1832--35*
460
1
The Blessings of a Good Little Wife: c. 1835*
461
2
The Wives Lamentation: 1832--36*
463
3
Mrs. Johnson: 1834*†
466
2
A Week's Matrimony: 1832--36*
468
3
The Drunken Husband: 1836--37
471
2
The Woman That Wished She'd Never Got Married: c. 1840?*
473
2
My Wife's First Baby: c. 1845--48
475
2
Poor Married Man: c. 1851*
477
3
Poets
480
20
Introduction
480
2
Ballads and Commentaries
482
18
Wandering Bard: c. 1800?*†
482
2
Billy Nutts, the Poet: c. 1853--55*†
484
10
Anything to Earn a Crust: c. 1850--55*
494
6
Scenes of Mirth and Contentment
500
29
Introduction
500
5
Ballads and Commentaries
505
24
Hot Codlings: c. 1806?†
505
1
Beggars Opera---Tom, Jerry, & Logick Among the Cadgers in the Holy Land: 1822*
506
3
The Coalheaver's Feast: c. 1833--36*†
509
5
Monmouth Street: c. 1836*†
514
3
The Way to Live: 1840s
517
2
The Last Farewell to Poor St. Giles's: c. 1848*
519
4
Owdham Streets at Dinner Time: 1850s
523
2
The Brixton Lady and Her Nice Beetle Pies: c. 1856--57*
525
4
Appendix 1. The Broadside Cock
529
13
Appendix 2. ``Justifiable Homicide'' of a Policeman: Jurors Versus Coroner, the Times, and the Government, May 1833
542
6
Notes
548
13
Bibliography
561
8
Title List of English Broadsides (mainly ballads) on Poverty, 1790--1870, Used, Quoted, Referred to, with Locations
569
52
First-Line List of Ballads
621
32
General Index
653
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