Short Stories by W. S. Gilbert

re: "It is well known that Gilbert contributed a large number of comic verses to the magazine Fun and others under the pen name "Bab" which subsequently became known as The Bab Ballads. It is, perhaps, less well known that he also wrote a number of short stories. /Many of the short stories which appeared in Fun were unsigned but were identified as Gilbert's in "W.S. Gilbert's Contributions to Fun, 1865-1874" by John Bush Jones, published in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol 73 (April 1969), pp253-266. This is a comprehensive list of Gilbert's contributions as marked up in the"Proprietor's Copy" of Fun. /Thanks to Adam Cuerden for seeking out these pieces of prose by Gilbert and to Anthony Porter for help with preparing the electronic versions..."...