"A FAST man, who acknowledges having read the 'COMIC ALMANACK' of last
year through the shop-windows, and is ashamed now of the petty meanness,
begs to forward to the Editor, as conscience money, the sum of One
Shilling. The halves of six blue postage-stamps are now enclosed, and
the remaining halves will be forwarded as soon as the first are
acknowledged."
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[The above have been duly handed over to Mr. Bogue, who has generously
paid the amount into the Poor-box for the _Relief of Distressed Jokers_—
a most deserving charity.—ED. C. A.]
THINGS THAT ARE INDISPENSABLE FOR A
GENTLEMAN'S POCKET.
Advertisers seem to imagine that a gentleman's pocket is as capacious as
a kangaroo's—everything is for the pocket. We subjoin a few that will go
to the bosom of every gentleman, especially those who have carried them—
as the pressure of so many articles must have been rather inconvenient,
if carried in the waistcoat pocket.
Pocket-comb.
Pocket Shakspeare.
Pocket Map.
Pocket Case of Instruments.
Pocket Sandwich-box.
Pocket Cab and Hackney-coach Fares.
Pocket Guide.
Pocket Dictionary.
Pocket Classics.
Pocket Dressing-case.
Pocket Life-preserver.
Pocket Constable's Staff.
Pocket Respirator, &c., &c.
to say nothing of innumerable Pocket-Books and Pocket Pistols, the
latter of which, we think, a gentleman had better be without. To contain
all the above articles, a gentleman's pocket need be as large, and
packed as close, as a pocket of hops. We shall be having Houses for the
Pocket next! and, who knows, a Pocket Railway?
[Illustration:
A POCKET GENTLEMAN.
]