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

And some that reap, who are but sow-sow,

But the honest farmer, blunt and plain,

Who has never learned to drink champagne

(Like some, or else I'm much mistaken,

Who pinch the poor to save their bacon),

May plenty crown his peaceful dome,

And "Hip! Hip! Hip! for his Harvest Home."

15 Newspaper Stamp Duty reduced, 1836.

Chancellor of the Exchequer brought to his last penny.

29 Michaelmas Day. De Goostibus non est disputandum.