But if, ere four brief days have fled, The debt and costs be paid, No further you'll by law be bled— Proceedings will be stay'd. CONSCIENCE MONEY. "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." [Illustration] [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. ] THE GAME OF FRIGHT. This round game has been played very extensively in France and other countries this year. In some circles the king has been thrown out and all the honours put aside, which has increased the fright to a very great extent, as it was always doubtful what low card would be the next turn up. Hitherto the clubs have been uppermost, and the knaves have shared all the spoil; but people are just beginning to see through the game, and are calling for a fresh pack; so we hope there will soon be an end to fright. A POCKET-BOOK PICKED UP IN THE GREAT DESERT. (SUPPOSED TO HAVE BELONGED TO A FASHIONABLE TOURIST.) The Great Desert is only solitary confinement applied to travelling.