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

Must meet with approbation:

Of Actors we have certainly

An over-Population.

OVER POPULATION

Four thousand Artists, most of whom,

When seen in fullest feather,

Wear beards, or whiskers, or moustache,

Or else all three together;

But let the bearded youths beware,