The Chase of the Black Fox 237 Miss Bailey's Ghost 241 The Two Yorkshire Lovers 242 Natterin Nan 246 The Barber of Thirsk's Forfeits 254 The Yorkshire Irishman; or, the Adventures of a Potato Merchant 255 When at Hame wi' Dad 257 I'm Yorkshire too 258 The Sweeper and Thieves 259 Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire 261 The Collingham Ghost 269 The Twea Threshers 273 Dolly's Gaon; or, the Effects of Pride 275 The Widow's Lament 282 Alice Hawthorn 286 Tommy Thumb 288 The Funny Wedding 289 The Flying Dutchman 292 The Yorkshireman in London 294 The Great Exhibition; or, Prince Albert's Curiosity Shop 296 The Lord of Saltaire 298 A Remarkable Circumstance connected with Bretton Hall 300 The Butcher turned Devil 304 Song 306 Colonel Thompson's Volunteers 307 The Sledmere Poachers 308 The Yorkshire Concert 311 The Soldier in Yorkshire 313 Aw nivir can call hur my Wife 315 Glossary 317 THE BALLADS AND SONGS OF YORKSHIRE. THE DIRGE OF OFFA. BY THE REV. MR. BALL. This ballad is supposed to be written by Mordrid, chief of the bards, in the reign of Edwin, king of Northumberland, whose son Offa was slain in the battle of Hatfield Wood, near Doncaster, A.D. 633. It concludes with the words of the bard. Rapin says, on Hatfield Heath a bloody battle was fought between Ceadwalla, king of the Britons, and Penda, the Pagan king of Mercia, against Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumberland, in which Edwin and Offrido his eldest son were slain. See my son, my Offa, dies! He who could chase his father's foes! Where shall the king now close his eyes? Where but in the tomb of woes.