Handbill poem entitled 'Baron Böhmbig [Bohmbig], or the Rival Jumpers.'

Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, 32.5 x 24 cm. Text clear and complete, on aged paper with chipping and closed tears to edges. The only copy of this title on COPAC is at the British Library (folio, 4 pp, published by Zenas T. Purday), where it is ascribed to Blewitt and tentatively dated to around 1850. Six eight-line stanzas with chorus 'Jump high, jump low, jumping we go.' Possibly written with satiric intent. Begins 'In Turkey there dwelt such a mighty Bashaw, | That whatever he did, or said, it was law; | And he vow'd that his daughter should give her fair hand | In marriage, to one of a famed foreign land.' The second stanza explains that ' 'Mong the guests was a German, Von Baron Bohmbig, | Who in Holland had purchased his shoes for this rig, | Which in speed should outvie even Mercury's wings, | And of Indian Rubber were made, and with springs.' In the last stanza we learn that 'the Turks they do say, | His skeleton's jumping to this very day: - | [...] | And believe it or not, for prove it I can, | 'Twas this which gave rise to the flying Dutch-man.'