"A widow still,—and Toddles to the grave!"
V.D.L.
POSTSCRIPT.
Mr. George Cruikshank here concludes the first volume of his "Omnibus," by wishing all his friends and readers a "happy new year." An arrangement entered into, a twelvemonth ago, with Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and now resumed, with a view to its being carried into effect on the 1st of February, prevents the re-appearance of the "Omnibus" upon the plan of monthly numbers; but the estimation and success it has obtained, encourage him to pursue the object with which he started, by presenting his second volume in the form of an Annual. That object was, to produce a Fireside Miscellany—here it is; and if he and his literary associates herein should meet the reader as agreeably in an Annual, as in a Monthly form, he trusts it will be
AS BROAD AS IT'S LONG.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] An exact representation of it will embellish a future "Omnibus."
[2] The printer's devil had taken upon himself to make the following addition to these lines:—
Blind Thamyris, and blind Mæonides, (Something like Milton).