ABSTRACT
Published 1869 (‘1870’). The Duke of Argyll wrote to T., 18 Feb. 1865: ‘I hear you have got something new to match the Lincolnshire Farmer’ (Lincoln). Walter White refers to it, 9 July 1865 (Journals, 1898, p. 160). T. says it was ‘founded on a single sentence: “When I canters my’erse along the ramper (highway) I’ears ‘proputty, proputty, proputty’”.’ Cp. Northern Farmer, Old Style (II 619). Contrast this comic treatment of ‘marriage-hindering Mammon’ with that in Maud and in the other poems connected with Rosa Baring. All glossarial notes below are by T.
