“The Penny Wager”

Description

A traveller with one penny in his pocket stakes his purse in a pub wager. He wins; when he asks the landlord's wife what he owes, she tells him to give her a kiss and go. (He rejoices that he has won the wager; otherwise he'd have had to sell his horse)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 11(3387), "Adventures of a Penny" ("Long time I've travelled the north country"), J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 16(2b), "The Adventures of a Penny"

Recordings

• George Dunn, "My Little Grey Horse" (on Voice13)
• Levi Smith, "One Penny" (on Voice11)

References

1. Kennedy 280, "The Penny Wager" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. MacSeegTrav 115, "The Penny Wager" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Roud #393
4. BI, McCST115