Sally Brown & Ben The Carpenter, 1891.

For Sale are Two Pages removed from "The Graphic,  Christmas Number, 1891," showing the Following Colour Illustrated Short Story called "Sally Brown & Ben The Carpenter."
Written by Thomas Hood.
Sketches by W. Ralston.

 1- Young Ben he was a nice young man, a Carpenter by Trade; and he fell in love with Sally Brown, that was a Lady's Maid.
2- But as they fetched a Walk one day, they met a Press-ganged crew;  and Sally she did faint away whilst Ben he was brought to.
3- The Boatswain swore with wicked words, enough to shock a Saint, that though she did seem in a fit, twas nothing but a feint,
4- "Come Girl, sai he, "Hold up your head, He'll be as good as me ;  for when your swain is in our boat, a Boatswain he will be."
5- So when they'd made their game of her and taken off her elf she roused, and found she only was a coming to herself.
6- "And is he gone, and is he gone ? she cried, and wept outright ;  "Then I will to the waterside, and see him out of sight."
7- A waterman came up to her, "Now young woman, said he, "If you weep on so, you will make Eye-Water in the sea.
8- "Alas! they've taken my Beau Ben to sail with old Benbow :"and her woe began to run afresh as if she'd said gee woe !
9- Says he "They've only taken him to the tender-ship, you see ; "  "The tender-ship," cried Sally Brown , what a hard-ship that must be !
10- 'Oh! would I were a Mermaid now, for then I'd follow him ;   But Oh !I'm not a Fish Woman, and so I cannot swim.
11- "Alas! I was not born beneath the virgin and the scale,  so I must curse my cruel stars, and walk about in Wales."
12- Now Ben had sailed to manu a place that's underneath the world ;  but in two years the ship came home, and all her sails were furled.
13- But when he called on Sally Brown" to see how she got on he found she'd got another Ben, whose christian name was John.
14- "O Sally Brown,  O Sally Brown! how could you serve me so? I've met with many a breeze before, but never sucha blow."
15- Then reading on his 'Bacco Box he heaved a bitter sigh and then began to eye his pipe and then to pipe his eye.
16- And then he tried to sing, but could not though he tried ;  his head was turned and so he chewed his pigtail till he died.
17- His death, which happened in his berth, at forty odd befell ;  they went and told the sexton and the sexton toll'd the Bell.

Condition is Very Good.