"The Industrious Boy".

from Punch, Bd 18, p 227
newspaper print
paper, 29 x 23 cm
England, 1850
German Historical Museum, Berlin

"Please to Remember the Exposition."
Pity the troubels of a poor young Prince, Whose costly scheme has borne him to the door, Who`s in a fix - the matter not the mine - Oh, help him out, and Commerce swell your store! This empty hat my awkward case bespeaks, These blank subscription-lists explain my fear; Days follow days, and a week succeed to weeks, But very few constributors appear. Station brings duties: why should we repine?Station has brought me to the state you see; And your condition might have been like mine, The child of Banter and of Raillery.