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

Is shown in a predilection

(To Socialists often known)

Of treating other folk's goods as their own.

But now we bid adieu to Mr. Owen,

Who very long the game had carried on;

Three times he set it—"going, going, going,"

And, like himself, knock'd down at last—'tis gone!

CHRISTMAS BEEF A LA MODE DE TARIFF.

"Beef à la mode de Tariff," well I ween