gmhill
01-17-2002, 06:16 PM
I spent a while searching for this, and had no success...
Unless this person was you, it looks as though other people have been trying and have failed...
They asked, "I am looking for a poem which my neighbor used to recite. It is about Gaffer Hepplethwaite who "drove the Essex stage" and it begins with"Far inland from the lighthouse, Where the raging tempest storms...." It is humorous and naughty but is in very proper language so I suspect either British or last century. Any ideas as to where I may research this?????? ANY ideas are welcomed!!! Thanks."
and the reply was:
"I have probably a dozen or more anthologies of humorous
and/or bawdy verse. Yours was not found in any of them,
with either the title Gaffer Hepplethwaite, or the first
line as shown above. Net search yields zip, also.
I would like to read it, if you ever do find it, though.
Good luck!"
..I have also asked everyone I know, and have been have been getting the same responce, "I've never heard of it."
I will keep trying.
Unless this person was you, it looks as though other people have been trying and have failed...
They asked, "I am looking for a poem which my neighbor used to recite. It is about Gaffer Hepplethwaite who "drove the Essex stage" and it begins with"Far inland from the lighthouse, Where the raging tempest storms...." It is humorous and naughty but is in very proper language so I suspect either British or last century. Any ideas as to where I may research this?????? ANY ideas are welcomed!!! Thanks."
and the reply was:
"I have probably a dozen or more anthologies of humorous
and/or bawdy verse. Yours was not found in any of them,
with either the title Gaffer Hepplethwaite, or the first
line as shown above. Net search yields zip, also.
I would like to read it, if you ever do find it, though.
Good luck!"
..I have also asked everyone I know, and have been have been getting the same responce, "I've never heard of it."
I will keep trying.