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

MUGGINS.

Familiar to mine ear the number sounds;

In Bedford Square I went my nightly rounds.

BUGGINS.

For years was Buggins known upon a beat

In the vicinity of Baker Street.

MUGGINS.

I loved a maid—a housemaid—Mary Ann—

They kept a page, three females, and a man.

BUGGINS.