THE RAILWAY JUGGERNAUT OF 1845
The mania was not confined to men: Punch satirizes the ladies who were "stagging it" under the heading "A Doe in the City," and suggests a Joint Stock Railway Workhouse as the natural and fitting end of all these operations. This idea is further developed in "Jaques in Capel Court," a parody which begins:—
All the world are stags!
Yea, all the men and women merely jobbers—
and after enumerating the various phases of the mania, concludes:—
Last scene of all,
That ends this sad but common history,
Is Union pauperism and oakum-picking: