And the women were weeping and quite in a pet,
For the dresses they never will show to the town;
For wives will dress, though husbands can’t pay,
And Bankruptcy’s surely the pleasantest way
To get rid of the bill and the dunning.
This parody, with three appropriate illustrations, appeared in Punch, November 27, 1858.
The Four Fishers,
(Who caught nothing)
Four Merchants who thought themselves wisest and best