The Darby Ram

There is a whimsical little volume, which, as it relates mainly to local matters, may not have come under the notice of many of your readers, to which I would refer your querist H.W. It is entitled,— "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 i…