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THE WORKHOUSE BOY

... THE WORKHOUSE BOY. At-k Th, Mistktoe Bsug. THE cloth was laid in the Vorkhouse hail, And the great coats hung on the vhite-vashed vall; The paupers all vere blithe and gay, Keeping their Christmas holiday: When the master he cried, with a roguish leer ...

THE WORKHOUSE BOY

... THE WORKHOUSE BOY. AIR-Tile Mistletoe Bough. TmE cloth was laid in the Vorkhouse hall, And the great coats hung on the vhite-vashed vail; The paupers all vere blithe and gay, Keeping their Christmas holiday: When the master he cried, with a roguish leer ...

FITZROY THEATRE

... assimilated as the difference in their respective situations will admit. The Workhouse King (or Governor) is the Sultan of the ballet; the Parish Beadle is the Ishmael; and the Workhouse Clerk forms a substitute for the Guardian Eunuch; whilst the whole body ...

A BALLAD:

... wretched workhouse the contrary prevails: rs Does Age begin to prattle ? -no man heark'rieth to lis tales. Pc 'P al In a costly palace if the child with a pin f De but chance to prick a finger, strait the ducteris called in; o td In a wretched workhouse men ...

THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... volt of the Workhouse,-a very fair, well acted, and humorous burlesque on its predecessor at Covent Garden. Cracsk4ull, the beadle, returning triumphant from battle with a rebellious apple- woman, demands from the master of the workhouse a holiday for ...

Poetry

... inquire into the truth of a report respecting the master of the workhouse having refused a poor man to see his wife when laid upon her death-bed. The parties were both intimates of the workhouse. The man's name is William Dogget, once a maun in respectable ...

Before resuming our analysis of the minutes of evidence appended to the Report of the Committee on the Andover ..

... Union considered in four phases : in relation to the method of administering relief; the manner which tho workhouse was kept; the dietary of the workhouse and the mode in which the books of the Union were kept. The enormous amount of abuses found to prevail ...

Poetry

... inquire iato the truth of a report respecting the master of the work-house having refused a poor man to aee his wife when- iaid upon her death-bed. The parties were both inmates of the workhouse. 'The man's name is William Dogget, once a man in respectable ...

THE ODD FELLOWS RECITER

... soup first had it, next the overseer llowe'er it be it is not here at home, For please you, gem'men, 'tis the workhouse comb!' 'The workhouse conb ?? all -cried, ' oh, 'tie too true I Oh! overseer, what will become of you I ' lRa, fetch a doctor-stoma ...