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

Every poor 'oss that is left vill be hobligated to vander about the streets, vithout never so much as a shoe to his feet.

Stage Coachman.

And vorser still!—Hang me! if each blessed Landlord vont be hinsolvent, and each blessed hinn be sqvashed—

For I heerd t'other day that even "The Red Lion" had got over his head and ears in debt, and vas a going to get vhitevashed.

STEAMED OUT,
or the Starving Stage-Coachman and Boys.

Post Boy.

They do say, too, that the Sheriff has seized all "The Hangel's" things, and "The 'Ole in the Vall" is to be closed afore another twelvemonth comes round—

And, vot's more! that "The Pig in the Pound"'s broke, and von't be hable to pay his creditors nuffin at all votsomdever in the pound.

Stage Coachman.