Excerpt from Much Sound and Little Sense E bab ballads appeared originally in the column of fun, when that periodical was under the editor f the late tom hood. They were subsequently repub in two volumes, one called the bab ballads, more bab ballads. The period during which the ritten extended over some three or four years; many r, were composed hastily, and under the discomfortin ty of having to turn out a quantity of lively verse by day in every week. As it seemed to me (and to others e volumes were disfigured by the presence of these hastily impostors, I thought it better to withdraw from bot s such Ballads as seemed to show evidence of careless r undue haste, and to publish the remainder in the com rm under which they are now presented to the reader. May interest some to know that the first of the series Yarn of the Nancy Bell, was originally offered t - to which I was, at that time, an occasional con r. It was, however, declined by the then Editor, on th. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.