From First to Last [ii]
23/4/1859
From First to Last [iii]
30/4/1859
Half the Year Round
10/12/1859
Each stanza later features as the epigraph to a different tale in Country Stories, Old and New. In Prose and Verse, 2 vols (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), II, pp. 1, 45, 101, 143, 245, 261.
See also 'Half the Year Round', All the Year Round, I, No. 8.
Polly's One Offer [i]
13/6/1868
Attribution: reprinted in Holme Lee, Country Stories, Old and New: In Prose and Verse, 2 vols (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872).
Polly's One Offer [ii]
20/6/1868
Polly's One Offer [iii]
27/6/1868
18/6/1859
Attribution: reprinted in Country Stories, Old and New. In Prose and Verse (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1872).
See also 'Half the Year Round', All the Year Round, II, No. 33.
Three Nights by Ash-Pool
23/7/1859