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

'em before you buy 'em. But it's

All round my hat, &c.

Oh, I gave my son a hat on the day he was born on,

Which I gave him as a plaything all to remember me;

And when he grows up, his head it will be worn on,

For an infantry colonel he very soon will be.

(Spoken.)—Here's your fine full blooming annuals—cheap at any

price. Yes, that they are—but it's

All round my hat, &c.