Punch. April 25, 1885.
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Send a Remittance from Home.
(Parody on “Write me a Letter from Home.”)
Wretched I sit here and cry,
Poorer than I’ve been for years,
Not a bad ha’p’ny have I,
Nothing but sorrows and tears.
Poor trust, at the cook-shop, is dead,
My creditors bully and foam,