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...Popular Ballad," by F.E. Gummere...
...role of a madman was extremely well rendered by R. H. Smith '10, and H. P. Breed '08 and C. W. Burton '08 impersonated Ursula, the pigwoman, and her tapster, Mooncalf, with a vigor and sincerity which was decidedly realistic. A pleasing feature of the performance was a clever ballad, sung by R. M. Middlemass...
...heathen," and all enter Ursula's booth to partake of pig. Justice Overdo enters, still preserving his incognito, and the extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested for his pains...
Atlantic--"The Face of Clay," by A. S. Pier '95; "The Panic and the Banks," by F. S. Mead '87; "The Popular Ballad," by G. L. Kittredge '82; "Hesper," by Van Dyke...
...seated at table with Oliver-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen outside. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Oliver, who summons him into the mansion and compels him to sing one of his ballads with which all the streets of Paris are ringing. The ballad is directed against the king, and Oliver hopes to bring about the composer's ruin by having him sing it in the royal presence. At the close of the song the king summons before him Loyse, a beautiful bourgeoise...