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Some London beauties of the "seventies" Great ladies The Victorian girl Votaries of the Gaiety Theatre Two witty ladies Two clever girls and mock-Shakespeare The family who talked Johnsonian English Old-fashioned tricks of pronunciation Practical jokes Lord Charles Beresford and the old Club-member The shoe-less legislator Travellers' palms The tree that spouted wine Celyon's spicy breezes Some reflections Decline of public interest in Parliament Parliamentary giants Gladstone, John Bright, and Chamberlain Gladstone's last speech His resignation W.H. Smith The Assistant Whips Sir William Hart-Dyke Weary hours at Westminster A Pseudo-Ingoldsbean Lay.
My brother was a great admirer of the Ingoldsby Legends, and could himself handle Richard Barham's fascinating metre very effectively. He was meditating "A Pseudo-Ingoldsbean Lay," dealing with leading personalities in the then House of Commons.
Although it has nothing to do with the subject in hand, I must quote some lines from "The Raid of Carlisle," another "Pseudo-Ingoldsbean Lay" of my brother's, to show how easily he could use Barham's metre, with its ear-tickling double rhyme, and how thoroughly he had assimilated the spirit of the Ingoldsby Legends.
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