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

While wet sustains
Highgate.

THE MARCH TO FINCHLEY.

Once out of town went big John Brown,

A Sunday man so gay;

He went with his life, and he went with his wife,

And he went with his kids in a shay!

The shay was like a lottery prize—

Exceedingly hard to draw;

And John Brown looked with both his eyes