Ian
the address where the entire text resides is as follows:

http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/Oral-Lit/English/Child-Ballads/child.html

child ballad text


then, when on the site, (a picture of francis child is the first item to be shown) wait a couple of minutes while your browser loads the text (there are 1800 odd pages of it) then right click the mouse, select all, edit, copy to clipboard, open a new 'word' document, and paste contents of clipboard. this takes a few minutes, even on broadband, as the file is massive. then save the word document ( again, it takes a few minutes to save, because of the size). the best bet then is to break it down into separate documents with edit,cut,and paste, because it is really too big to simply read through. Happy hunting!

Mumblin Len