The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 / 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

"But wit is not—vulgarity."

THE STAG, THE BULL, AND THE BEAR.
(A Railway Fable.)

THE STAG, THE BULL, AND THE BEAR.
A RAILWAY FABLE.

A Stag there was—as I've heard tell,

Who in an attic us'd to dwell,

Or rather—to use a fitter phrase—

Who in an attic us'd to graze;

And being blest, like many I know,

With little Conscience, and less Rhino,