"Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners
ten years ago. Manchester, 1833." cr. 8vo.
It is anonymous, but I believe truly ascribed to a clever young
bookseller of the name of J.S. Gregson, since dead.
At page 185. he gives twelve stanzas of this ballad, as the most perfect
copy from the oral chronicle of his greatgrandmother.
In _The Ballad Book_ (Edinb. 1827, 12mo.), there is another entitled
"The Ram of Diram," of a similar kind, but consisting of only six verses
and chorus. And the _Dublin Penny Journal_, vol. i., p. 283., contains a
prose story, entitled "Darby and the Ram," of the same veracious nature.