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

My lucky I'm obliged to cut, because it has cut me:

But now good bye, I must not waste more time in idle talks,

And since my future walk's chalk'd out—at once I'll walk my chalks.

WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH THE PARISH 'PRENTICES?

Poor little Jim, so short and slim,

A sweep alone, before, would take him;

But since the law's new sweeping clause,

The parish must a grow-sir make him.

Science under Divers forms.