Q. How does the Income-Tax affect persons of precarious income?

A. It deprives them of the money which they ought to save as a provision against a season of loss of employment, or against old age.

Q. Where do those people go who are incapacitated by the Income-Tax from making a provision for loss of employment, or for old age?

A. To the workhouse.

Punch, December 13, 1856.


A Rabble Catechism for M.P.’S.

Respectfully Dedicated to Major Beresford, M.P., for North Essex; Ex-Tory Whipper-in, Secretary-at-War in 1852; with every possible etcetera.

Q. What is a rabble?

A. Rabble is a congregation of creatures that hiss and hoot.