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

For when I've drunk too much Glenlivat,

And my head is splitting with it,

Carrara! thou can'st ease my pain,

And fit my soul to drink again.

"MY WIFE IS A WOMAN OF MIND."

THE WOMAN OF MIND.

My wife is a woman of mind,

And Deville, who examined her bumps,

Vow'd that never were found in a woman