Ye butcher, ye baker, ye candlestick-maker : being sundry amusing and instructive verses for both old and young, adorned with numerous woodcuts . V^ The classic and pathetic ballad of the fortunes of Ben ^ Battle is perhaps the most famous of Hoods humor- vju ous poems. The seeming crudity of the laughable i^ pictures heightens the humor of Hoods punning w verses, and the result is a holiday booklet which ^ cannot fail to amuse. & HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY | BOSTON AND NEW YORK & THE DIVERTINGHISTORY OF mo^n Gilpin Br WILLUM COWPER Together with some thirty two original wood-cut engravings by R

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Ye butcher, ye baker, ye candlestick-maker : being sundry amusing and instructive verses for both old and young, adorned with numerous woodcuts . V^ The classic and pathetic ballad of the fortunes of Ben ^ Battle is perhaps the most famous of Hoods humor- vju ous poems. The seeming crudity of the laughable i^ pictures heightens the humor of Hoods punning w verses, and the result is a holiday booklet which ^ cannot fail to amuse. & HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY | BOSTON AND NEW YORK & THE DIVERTINGHISTORY OF mo^n Gilpin Br WILLUM COWPER Together with some thirty two original wood-cut engravings by Robert Seaver and adecorative binding in half calf, with paper ^sides, square i 8mo, 50 cents, net, ~. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 4 Park Street, Boston85 Fifth Ave., New York CAMBRIDGE • MASSACHUSETTSU . S • A JUL 24 1908 N

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