The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

JANUARY.—New Year's Eve.

JACK FROST.

Hail, Snow! not the white head at Snow and Paul's,

But speaking city-wise, that oddity

Which rises higher as the more it falls,

A paradoxial commodity.

The schoolboy's long expected an-nu-al;—

Abandon'd now are wicket, bat, and ball;