The Three Jovial Huntsmen

The Three Jovial Huntsmen (1880) was a popular British picture book illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons in London.

The toy book, which is a variant of the folklore song The Three Huntsmen (sometimes called the Three Jolly Huntsmen), was well-received, selling tens of thousands of copies.

[2][3][4] In 1914, four colour pictures from the book were reproduced by Frederick Warne & Co as postcards.

[6] One said it was a boggart, an' another he say "Nay; It's just a ge'man-farmer, that has gone an' lost his way" One said it was a bull-calf, an' another he said "Nay; It's just a painted jackass, that has never learnt to bray."

So they hunted, an' they hollo'd, till the setting of the sun; An' they'd nought to bring away at last, when th' huntin'-day was done.