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Verse and Worse

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A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. - Summary by mleigh (2 hr 30 min)

Chapters

Author's Preface

1:46

Read by mleigh

Foreword

4:48

Read by Kerry Adams

Abroad

2:28

Read by Anthony Joseph

United States of America

2:10

Read by Alan Mapstone

Great Britain

1:39

Read by Alan Mapstone

Scotland

1:23

Read by Alan Mapstone

Ireland

1:13

Read by Kerry Adams

Wales

0:46

Read by Kerry Adams

China

2:08

Read by Anthony Joseph

France

1:28

Read by dc

Germany

1:28

Read by Alan Mapstone

Holland

2:10

Iceland

0:57

Read by Kerry Adams

Italy

1:55

Japan

1:19

Read by mleigh

Portugal

0:36

Read by Sadiya Bindir

Russia

1:26

Read by ml16

Spain

2:49

Read by Kerry Adams

Switzerland

1:26

Read by nighthawks

Turkey

1:38

Read by Steve Nelson

Dreamland

1:34

Read by Sadiya Bindir

Stageland

0:47

Read by Larry Wilson

Loverland

4:26

Read by Andrea Atwood

Homeland

1:22

Read by Anthony Joseph

Prelude (Childish Complaints)

3:18

Read by Andrea Atwood

Appendicitis

0:32

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Whooping-Cough

0:33

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Measles

0:33

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Adenoids

0:34

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Croup

0:31

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Mother-Wit

0:34

Read by nighthawks

Uncle Joe

0:31

Read by Adrian Stephens

Aunt Eliza

0:26

Read by Adrian Stephens

Absent-mindedness

1:05

Read by Kerry Adams

John

1:48

Read by Adrian Stephens

Baby

0:36

Read by mleigh

The Cat

1:18

Read by Stefan Von Blon

'Virtue is its own Reward'

7:35

Read by Andrea Atwood

'Enough is as Good as a Feast'

2:28

Read by Peter Yearsley

'Don't Buy a Pig in a Poke'

1:47

Read by Peter Yearsley

'Learn to Take Things Easily'

0:58

Read by mleigh

'A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss'

2:52

Read by Peter Yearsley

'It is Never Too Late to Mend'

2:25

Read by Peter Yearsley

'A Bad Workman Complains of his Tools'

0:52

Read by Peter Yearsley

'Don't Look a Gift-horse in the Mouth'

2:03

Read by Peter Yearsley

Potpourri

4:13

Read by Peter Yearsley

Bill

2:30

The Legend of the Author

14:22

Read by Kerry Adams

The Motriot

1:48

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Ballad of the Artist

4:06

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Ballad of Ping-pong

1:51

Read by Larry Wilson

The Pessimist

1:54

Read by nighthawks

The Place where the Old Cleek Broke

2:59

Read by Greg Giordano

The Homes of London

1:50

Read by Slyma12

The Happiest Land

4:21

Read by Kerry Adams

A London Involuntary

3:11

Read by Greg Giordano

Bluebeard

13:38

Read by nighthawks

The Woman with the Dead Soles

4:15

Read by Greg Giordano

Rosemary (A Ballad of the Boudoir)

1:28

Read by Divya Sharma

Portknockie's Porter

2:48

Read by czandra

The Ballad of the Little Jinglander

4:10

Read by czandra

Aftword

2:23

Read by Larry Wilson

Envoi

1:29

Read by mleigh