The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 2nd part

Gaily the Lord Abbot smiled

 Into the bottomless pit he fell slap

1907

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The Lady Rohes

 in the pantry was the holy man discovered, - at his devotions

 Whack!

1907

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The Tragedy

The Duchess shed tears large as marrow-fat peas (1907)

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Hon. Mr. Suckletthumbkin's Story

The Execution

Which made all the pions Church-mission folks squall

 Some Account of a New Play

 He bounced up and down (1907)

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He rescued  a maid from the dey of Algiers

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"O Lord," he thought, "What pain it was to drown!"

The Black Mousquetaire

A Legend of France

 1907

1898, 1930

Grandville acted on it, and order'd  his tandem

Sir Rupert the Fearless

A Legend of Germany

They'd such very odd heads and such veryodd tails (1907)

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They came floating about him like so many prawns (1907)

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Miss Una von  - something

 

In an oak tree...she hung, crying and screaming (1907)

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The Merchant of Venice

A Legend of Italy

 They heard somebody crying, "Old Clo'!"

 The Auto-da-fé

A Legend of Spain

 

 

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The monks and then the nuns in the dead of the night tumble, all of them, out of their beds in affright (1907)

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Nell Cook!!

A Legend of the "Dark Entry"

He puts his thumb unto his nose, and he spreads his fingers out!

 Throughout that Entry dark doeth roam Nell Cook's unquiet Sprite (1907)

Tail-piece - Nell Cook

Nursery Reminiscences

Squibb'd my pantaloons and stockings (1907)

Gave me - several flaps behind

Ant Fanny

A Legend of a Shirt

 Cornet Jones of Tenth Hussars

"Ads cuss it! I've spoiled myself now by that 'ere nasty gusset!"

Misadventures at Margate

A legend of Jarvis's Jetty

Twas in Margate last July, I walked upon the pier (1907)

 I took him home to No. 2 (1898, 1930)

The Smuggler's Leap

A Legend of Thanet

 

 It's very odd that Sailor-men should wear those things so loose (1907)

Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberrie
The Shropshire Bluebeard
A Legend of "The Proud Salopians"

 With iron it's plated and machecollated, to pour boiling oil and lead down;
how you'd frown should aladle-fullfall on your crown  (1907)

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 Till  "Battle-Field" swarms like a Fair


The Babes in the Wood; or the Norfolk Tragedy
An Old Song to a New Tune
 

 The two Misses Tickler of Clapham Rise!

 Wandering about and "Boo-hoo"- ing (1907)

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Or making their court to their polls and their sues (1907)

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Tail -piece - the dead drummer

The Lay of St Cuthbert; or, the
Devil's Dinner-Party
A legend of the North Countree

The horn...Was blown with a loud twenty-trumpeter power (1907)

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The Lay of St. Aloys

A Legend of Blois

Witches and warlocks, ghosts, goblins and ghouls (1907)

1898, 1930

Bid the bandy-legges sexton go run for the May'r!


The Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey
A Legend of Dover

An "Old Woman clothed in gray"

Made one grasshopper spring to the door - and was gone! (1907)
 

 

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 He enlarged so, his shape seem'd approaching a sphere

Saint Medard

A Legend of Afric

St Medard dwelt on the banks of the Nile

The Lord of Toulouse

A Legend Of Languedoc

In the midst sits the Doctor

The Wedding-Day

Or, the Buccaneer's Curse

The soapy-tailed Sow

The Squire

The Blasphemer's Warning

A Lay of St Romwold

They dash'd up the hills, and they dash'd down the dales

 There were peacocks served up in their pride
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A  tom-cat of Sir Alured Denne's (1898, 1930)

The Brothers of Birchington

A Lay of St Tomas à Becket

They dragg'd the great fishpond the little one tried;

But found nothing at all, save some carp which they fried (1907)

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Ledger in hand, straight "Auld Hornie" appears

The Knight and the Lady

A Domestic Legend of the Reign of Queen Anne

Sir Thomas her lord was stout of limb (1907)

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 Tail -piece - The Knight and the Lady

The House Warming!!

A Legend of Bleeding Heart Yard

Did you ever see the devil dance? - Old Query

Sir Christopher Hatton he danced with grace

A grand pas de deux performed in the very first style by these two (1907)

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Jerry Jarvis's Wig

A Legend of the Weald of Kent

His first thought was to throw it into the pig-stye

When a score of ewes had brought in a reasonable profit (1907)

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We carved her initials

As I laye a-thynkynge, he rode upon his way

 Endpapers 1930

 Bookcover 1907