It more safe in old stockings or teapots had lain,
Or in some carpet-bag or box marked with your name.
Not a bubble now bursts, not a Bank falls to ground,
But shows how directors keep robbing around;
How the company’s funds to their own use they take,
Then suspend their cash payments, and scarce themselves make.
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Punch. March 21, 1857.
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TOM BOWLING.