haggis) 1 6
" Ale 2 0
" Whiskey (4 Mutchkins) 3 0
Supper (Finnan Haddies) 0 3
" Toddy 14 0
" Cigars 3 0
Mornin's 2 6
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L1 6 3

"I am, _Mr. Punch_, yours, &c.,
"JOHN TOMKINS."

* * *

"MR. PUNCH,--As there is some stir just now about the price of victuals
and conveyance, I hope you will say a word for us. I don't eat no
turtle, nor hares, nor grouse, nor partridges, nor pheasants, nor pigeon
pies, nor venison, nor prawns, nor grilled turkey, nor apricot tarts,
nor anything of that sort, which it quite makes one's mouth water to
read of in the _Times_--nor I don't drink no foreign wines, though I
once tasted some which was pretty much like ink and water. No, Sir, I
likes my good old English beef, or bread and cheese, and my pot of beer
along with it, and I think they taste the sweeter when they are not
'leavened with a sense of injustice,' as the late SIR ROBERT used to
say. But, to come to the point. I work hard all the week--'from morn to
noon, from noon to jewy eve,' as they say at the Institution; so me and
my old woman and kids like a little turn round on Sunday. Well, Sir,
last Sunday was a week I went from my place in Shoreditch to London
Bridge, and then on by the penny steamer to Chelsea, and it cost no ends
of money. Before starting on the boat I met BILL SMITH, and the
following was the little bill we run up:--

Chelsea. Sept. 1853.

_s. d._
2 Pots Ale 1 4
1/2 Pint Gin 1 0
10 Pickwicks 0 10
9 Bottles of Pop for Kids 0 9
Biscuits for ditto 0 3
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4 2

"I had nearly forgotten to mention that one Sunday afternoon I paid
6_d._ for a 'bus to Regent's Park Zoological, and 6_d._ to come back
again without having seen anything. PROFESSOR JELLY, of the Institution,
says the Vivarium is very interesting; but I find that it is only the
aristocracy who are admitted on Sunday, the working-classes it seems
would do an injury to their soles by looking at the fish on that day.
BILL SMITH says he thinks if he might go to the Crystal Palace, British
Museum, &c., on the only day he _can_ go, he shouldn't