WILLOW WALY! 397 LIFE IS LOVELY ALL THE YEAR 403 THE USHER’S CHARGE 411 THE GREAT OAK TREE 418 KING GOODHEART 424 SLEEP ON! 431 THE LOVE-SICK BOY 439 POETRY EVERYWHERE 445 HE LOVES! 453 TRUE DIFFIDENCE 458 THE TANGLED SKEIN 466 MY LADY 471 ONE AGAINST THE WORLD 473 PUT A PENNY IN THE SLOT 480 GOOD LITTLE GIRLS 482 LIFE 487 LIMITED LIABILITY 490 ANGLICISED UTOPIA 497 AN ENGLISH GIRL 499 A MANAGER’S PERPLEXITIES 504 OUT OF SORTS 506 HOW IT’S DONE 512 A CLASSICAL REVIVAL 515 THE PRACTICAL JOKER 523 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM 526 HER TERMS 534 THE INDEPENDENT BEE 536 THE DISCONCERTED TENOR 547 THE PLAYED-OUT HUMORIST 553 THE DARNED MOUNSEER I SHIPPED, d’ye see, in a Revenue sloop, And, off Cape Finisteere, A merchantman we see, A Frenchman, going free, So we made for the bold Mounseer, D’ye see? We made for the bold Mounseer! But she proved to be a Frigate—and she up with her ports, And fires with a thirty-two! It come uncommon near, But we answered with a cheer, Which paralysed the Parley-voo, D’ye see? Which paralysed the Parley-voo! Then our Captain he up and he says, says he, “That chap we need not fear,— We can take her, if we like, She is sartin for to strike, For she’s only a darned Mounseer, D’ye see? She’s only a darned Mounseer! But to fight a French fal-lal—it’s like hittin’ of a gal— It’s a lubberly thing for to do; For we, with all our faults, Why, we’re sturdy British salts, While she’s but a Parley-voo, D’ye see? A miserable Parley-voo!”