ey, to slay her.

NOTE.--_Amid the flotsam and jetsam of popular parlor-songs everywhere
current the following have come to hand. They are hardly worth
preserving, even by title, save for the fact that in spite of their
pseudo-literary tang they are fellow travelers by oral tradition with
the true folk-songs and song-ballads._

The list is: The Old, Old Love is Growing Still; There's a Spark of Love
Still Burning; I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers; The White Rose;
I'll Love Thee Always; Jack and Mary; Willie and Kate; Won't You Ever
Come Again?; Fond Affection; Will You Love Me When I'm Old?; Nell and I
had Quarrels; Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold?; I Want to be Somebody's
Darling; By the Gate; The Broken Engagement; Say You'll be Mine in a
Year; I Cannot be Your Sweetheart; Kiss Me Again; Just Going Down to the
Gate; Darling, We have Long been Parted; Our Hands are Clasped; Only
Flirting; I Loved You Better than You Knew; Mollie Darling; The Jealous
Girl; The Independent Girl; Willie, Come Back; Free Again; The Hawthorn
Tree; The Sailor Lad; I'll be All Smiles Tonight; Love, I've been
Faithful; Maggie's Secret; I Rather Think I Will; Little Sweetheart;
Meet Me in the Moonlight; He's Got Money, Too; After the Ball; Sweet
Bunch of Daisies; In the Shadow of the Pines; On the Banks of the
Wabash; Mary has Gone with a "Coon."

XII.

_This group contains two-part songs, arranged dialogue-fashion, like a
debat or a tenson. All contain love-themes, as in XI above. In spite of
the obvious logical cross-division, it has seemed well to print them as
a separate section._

I'LL GIVE TO YOU A PAPER OF PINS, ii, 4aab3b, 13: The lover offers the
maiden in alternate quatrains various gifts to induce her to marry him.
She replies in alternate quatrains, refusing him. Finally, he offers
"the key of his chest." She accepts, but he scorns her mercenary love.

MADAM, I'VE A-COURTING COME, 4a3b4c3b, 7: The lover in the first three
quatrains offers his various forms of wealth to induce the lady to marry
him. She refuses in the fifth stanza his mercenary love. He makes reply
in the sixth and she in the seventh.

TWO LETTERS, ii, 3abcb, 13: The first four quatrains constitute the
letter from Charley Brooks to Nelly Adair, asking for the return of his
presents to her, since his love for her has grown cold. The last nine
are her reply, acquiescing with a sad dignity.

[STONY HILL], 4a3b4c3b, 3: Each quatrain contains, in couplet