Charles Carrington produced the first comprehensive volume of the Ballads in 1973, mainly drawn from these three collections but including five additional pieces not previously collected under the title. Three of these date from the same period: an untitled vernacular poem ("My girl she gave me the go onst") taken from a short story, "The Courting of Dinah Shadd", in "Life's Handicap" (1891); "Bobs" (1892 or 1898), a poem praising Lord Roberts; and "The Absent-Minded Beggar" (1899), a poem written to raise funds for the families of soldiers called up for the Boer War.