Excerpt from The Merry Companion for All Readers: Containing a Choice Selection of the Most Humourous Anecdotes, Droll Sayings, Wit, Fun, and Comical Incidents, Both in Prose and Poetry; Calculated to Enliven Dull Hours

I thing I see him Ragged dressing gown; beard two days old; depressed dickey; scowling face; out at elbows, out of sorts, and - out of toast ' Poor thing Don't it make my heart ache E' How should he be expected to know that bread was the forerunner of toast, without a wife to tell him?

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