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diff --git a/14081-0.txt b/14081-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79d33c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/14081-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14081 *** + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original lovely illustrations. + See 14081-h.htm or 14081-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/8/14081/14081-h/14081-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/8/14081/14081-h.zip) + + + + + +One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books + +Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. + +THE THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN + + + + + + + +[Illustration: The Three Jovial Huntsmen] + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + + +It's of three jovial huntsmen, an' a hunting they did go; + An' they hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' they blew their horns also + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +An' one said, "Mind yo'r e'en, an' keep yo'r noses reet i' th' wind + An' then, by scent or seet, we'll leet o' summat to our mind." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the first thing they did find +Was a tatter't boggart, in a field, an' that they left behind. + Look ye there! + +One said it was a boggart, an' another he said "Nay; +It's just a ge'man-farmer, that has gone an' lost his way." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find +Was a gruntin', grindin' grindlestone, an' that they left behind. + Look ye there! + +One said it was a grindlestone, another he said "Nay; +It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find +Was a bull-calf in a pin-fold, an' that, too, they left behind. + Look ye there! + +One said it was a bull-calf, an' another he said "Nay; +It's just a painted jackass, that has never larnt to bray." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find +Was a two-three children leaving school, an' these they left behind. + Look ye there! + +One said that they were children, but another he said "Nay; +They're no' but little angels, so we'll leave 'em to their play." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find +Was a fat pig smiling in a ditch, an' that, too, they left behind. + Look ye there! + +One said it was a fat pig, but another he said "Nay; +It's just a Lunnon Alderman, whose clothes are stole away." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find +Was two young lovers in a lane, an' these they left behind. + Look ye there! + +One said that they were lovers, but another he said "Nay; +They're two poor wanderin' lunatics--come, let us go away." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +So they hunted, and they hollo'd, till the setting of the sun; +An' they'd nought to bring away at last, when th' huntin'-day was done. + Look ye there! + +Then one unto the other said, "This huntin' doesn't pay; +But we'n powler't up an' down a bit, an' had a rattlin' day." + Look ye there! + +[Illustration] + + + + * * * * * + + + +[Illustration: Randolph Caldecott's +Picture Books] + +"The humour of Randolph Caldecott's drawings is simply irresistible, no +healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing." + +In square crown 4to, picture covers, with numerous coloured plates. + + 1 John Gilpin + 2 The House that Jack Built + 3 The Babes in the Wood + 4 The Mad Dog + 5 Three Jovial Huntsmen + 6 Sing a Song for Sixpence + 7 The Queen of Hearts + 8 The Farmer's Boy + 9 The Milkmaid +10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting +11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go +12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson's Gate +13 Come Lasses and Lads +14 Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, &c. +15 Mrs. Mary Blaize +16 The Great Panjandrum Himself + +The above selections are also issued in Four Volumes, square crown +4to, attractive binding, red edges. Each containing four different +books, with their Coloured Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches. + +1 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1 +2 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 2 +3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book +4 The Panjandrum Picture Book + +And also In Two Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth gilt, each +containing eight different books, with their Coloured Pictures and +numerous Outline Sketches. + +R. Caldecott's +Collection of +Pictures and Songs No. 1 + +R. Caldecott's +Collection of +Pictures and Songs No. 2 + +Miniature Editions, +size 5-1/2 by 4-1/2 +Art Boards. flat back. + +FOUR VOLUMES +ENTITLED +R. CALDECOTT'S +PICTUREBOOKS +Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. + +Each containing coloured +plates and numerous +Outline Sketches in +the text. + +Crown 4to, +picture covers. + +Randolph Caldecott's +Painting Books +Three Volumes + +Each with Outline +Pictures to Paint, and +Coloured Examples + +4to, cloth +A Sketch Book +of R. Caldecott's +Containing numerous +sketches in Colour +and black and white. + +Frederick Warne & Co.--LTD +London & New York + +The Published Prices of the above Picture Books can be obtained of +all Booksellers or from the Illustrated Catalogue of the Publishers. + +Printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, +London, E.I.] + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14081 *** |
