The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157805   Message #3832796
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Jan-17 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: Border & Hero ballads, Child #171-188
Subject: RE: Border & Hero ballads, Child #171-188
"Airchie Armstrong,"
We have a nice 19th century reprint of Archie Armstrong's 'Banquet of Jests' (together with 'Archie's Dream') - we also have a copy of 'Joe Miller's Jests'.
Those fellers skated on thin ice in who the chose to make the targets of their humour - incendiary stuff!
Jim Carroll