Punch (18.1850)

THE INDUSTRIOUS BOY.

" Please to Remember the Exposition."

Pit? the troubles of a poor young Prince,
Whose costly scheme has borne him to your door,
Who's in a fix—the matter not to mince—
Oh, help him out, and Commerce swell your store !

This empty hat my awkward case bespeaks,
, These blank subscription-lists explain my fear;
I Days follow days, and weeks succeed to weeks,
I But ?ery few contributors appear.

! Station brings duties : why should we repine?
| Station has brought me to the state you see;
j And your condition might have been like mine,
The child of Banter and of Raillery.