Then since to honest folks, I say,

They put the Workhouse Test,

Why nix my doll palls, fake away,

You’ll like the Jug the best.

The Model Prison.

[This originally appeared in Punch, April 4, 1857.]


Covent Garden.

A Hymn of Humility.

[Over and over again has the Duke of Bedford been implored, adjured, entreated, and admonished to set Covent Garden Market and its approaches in order; but as yet he has practically turned a deaf ear to all the appeals made to him.—Daily Paper.]