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

A libel to one's neck, just like cheap cag-mag-scrag of mutton;

There's nothing stares us in the face but rueful ruination,

So there's my ticket, and I'll seek some more genteel vocation.

7. Jerusalem demolished by Titus, A.D. 70.

Land Sharks and Sea Gulls.

Old Isaac's so given to bite us,

In bargains whenever we meet,

That I wish we'd a similar Titus