Oh! from the weather, when it snows and rains,
You might as well, at least, defend the Poor;
It would not cost you much, with all your gains:
Cover us in, and luck attend your store.
Punch. March 1, 1845.
At that date the third class railway carriages were like cattle trucks, open to the weather, and only provided with rough wooden seats.
The Stag’s Petition.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Stag,
Brought by the panic to the workhouse door;