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

'Afflictions sore, long time I bore,

Physicians was in vain—'

Cætera desunt. Can any of your readers inform me of the name and profession of the deceased, what he died of, and whether the undertaker was paid for his funeral?"

THE OPERA HABITUÉ.

You've heard of an Habitué—an Opera-going man—

Perhaps you sometimes try to look as like one as you can,

But, if you want a faithful sketch—correct as sketch can be,

I'll daguerreotype myself—an old Habitué.

And first, I don't know music—for I haven't got an ear;