of living longest).
| Vegetarian | 5 |
| Fox-hunter | 15 |
| Soldier in the Line | 9 |
| Guardsman | 19¾ |
| Railway Traveller | 12 |
| Ditto, on the Midland Counties' Railway | 1¼ |
| Habitué of the Legitimate Drama | ¼ |
| Husband of a "Bloomer" (unless he runs away from her) | 1 |
| Member of Parliament | 15 |
| Reader of Parliamentary Debates | 5 |
| Reader of the Comic Almanack[[9]] | 20 |
[9]. Note.—If a purchaser also, the chance is enormously increased, and, for all practical purposes, may be regarded as a certainty.—Publisher.
THE RIDDLER.
The following queries are proposed for solution by some of our ingenious readers. Answers must be enclosed to the publisher on or before the first of April next. Fifty copies of the Comic Almanack (equivalent to a permanent provision for the receiver for life, with handsome reversions to his posterity), will be presented to any one who shall answer the whole correctly. We might have hesitated in making so stupendous an offer, but felt that the world required for the year 1852 some universal excitement, rather superior to that occasioned by the Exhibition of 1851.
CHARADE.
My first young ladies do at balls,
My second will destroy St. Paul's,
My whole on Temple-Bar was seen,
The day Prince Albert wed the Queen.