Billy Barlow

Printed in two columns divided by line of ruled advertising with type ornaments at beginning and end. At head of first column, below title, wood-engraving of ragged man holding paper headed: Loafer. Printed area measures: 20.3 x 14.5 cm. Text between columns: Sold, wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming, at the Sign of the Barber's Pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Poem in 22 five-line stanzas with refrain: O dear, raggeddy ho, is it not hard, &c. Poem mentions places in Boston but uses name of Billy Barlow, a Londoner who died in Whitechapel workhouse--cf. Reader's handbook, London, 1911, p. 120. Deming used this address from 1837 to 1840.