I slept there all the same.

I slept there all the same.

From George Cruikshank’s Table Book. Edited by Gilbert Abbot à Beckett.


The Alarmist’s Dream about the Great Exhibition.

I dreamt that I stood in the Crystal Halls,

With Chartists and Reds at my side,

And that all who assembled in those glass walls,

Came there the contents to divide.

Of riches too great to count it could boast,