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

Then vainly ask for me a blessin',

And pardon crave for my transgression.

Sadly, I confess, I've done amiss.

I know there is no hope for bliss.

To-morrow I shall be a public gaze,

And then in torments end my days.

THE MELANCHOLY PROCESSION.

WAITING FOR THE MAIL.