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# "How Bleckensduffer Branded the Calf" This page from *Judge* contains a humorous domestic story illustrated with a comic scene. The narrative describes a comedic mishap: Mr. Bleckensduffer shows his wife a branding iron, which she misunderstands as decorative. When a calf escapes nearby, she suggests he use it to catch the animal. After various comic struggles, Bleckensduffer grabs the hot iron by mistake and throws it toward his wife in pain. The satire appears to mock masculine pride and marital dynamics—the husband's wounded dignity ("you're a better man than your husband") contrasts with the wife's practical problem-solving. The slapstick conclusion targeting domestic conflict was typical *Judge* fare: working-class humor emphasizing bumbling husbands, exasperated wives, and physical comedy. The illustration shows the chaotic scene with the calf, rope, and frantic action.

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The verd Mr. Belmont by a series of infamous libe people are contented to leave } and he touched him se effectually that he (Mr. Devo) » sixty days s sent to his favorite jail for | ry notwithstandi and Treland is not free Upon one point in the trial, however, we | recorded and the Stur-Route trials_have | Sara, come and cut this blasted animal lc | cannot refrain f xpr xan’ unquali- their place among the causes celebres of | will ve? und don't stand there like « fe || fied opinion. ‘The line of cross-examination | history. . and the ealf, that hadn't had so much fan adopted by the counsel for the defence was | since he was born, kicked him a welt in the | How Bleckensduffer Branded the Calf. | nose and bit off api “Are you hurt, de eof his ear. ality harder te bear than the libel itself, Ina word, Mr. Belmont eame into court | [We give the appended in re ory under the title our | tae: witle Frosh insult, | Somtrbator tas furniates wih te. Rrobably hedi iwoke i Hake broker your eyes look 1] We have ne hat Judge Cowing did | Ret like te call i . so funny, jest like tion day, Hr iaching bak inethoso eased a ot Does vour stomach hurt you much? Perhaps ke cannot claim to have a monopoly of | PROV hotter send for the doctor, that at witness has 10 | matrimonial “allrightness,” we infer Mr. Stanley ’ : ‘ Shut up, you fool, willy J=Eo. and hand At rope “+ Wiat’s that?” inquired Mr. Bleckens: | 77 May be E could eateh him,” s duffer of her husband one morning shortly | 4s. B . + they | in their Western |, "Oh, ye ean, ean ye?" said Bleckensduf- ag hieOntaved and Inid:onc tle bab may be you think you're a better man Iy-shapedsira than your husband, Here, take the roy That, ra, isa branding-iron,” | a eiteh him, if you think’ you're so dost C0: smart. eth mt ey Amd what | Mrs B. took the rope, gently approached the calf, put the 1 over its head, and B,; | led him up to her husband, “Well, why didn’t you tell m catch him, instead of ‘standing » me make a fool of myself! growled wy receive from | Huntly will have no objecti manly instincts Where the Ta ted It is inthe tlready too | hands— | might t tincourt itself the insult is due jed from th {the cross-examining table t be, hey?” shout well, it might be patent burg ul it might be the old-style arm t improvement eam freezer—only itain plicated and intens eclue What dye suppose it is, now? ‘Think it’s | ly: “there, take the rope while | something to hang up in the parlor, and tell | . So IT 1s EXDED—the long trial and all its | Sour ft Vrehe from the excavation |, Bleckensduffer rushed to the fire, a a soe of Pompeii? Sve wot an idea into | His blind haste, grasped the hot irot ne Phe lav are enriched, | vous head that Whole telephone ex. | fearful oath he throw it towards his wife and Bob Inger renee hasence more 1 disinise? Well, to relieve your | mde for the house; stumbling against a stone tored Dorsey et al. But was this nel Ingersoll’s we should think; jury was composed F that littly pioce af hrie-a-br vay de ir, | he fell forward, and the elothes-line took win brande—to, mark the | Dim under the chin and threw him against — | | he Cnr Geciit to cee tl {| an old cupboard that fell over on him and | You see, this thing of | Just mauled hin rather expe nd for a doctor sancd Bleckens- onclusion that wecouldn't | duifer, as his wife helped him to bed, “and for the carefully | of men too intelligent to be hoodwinked by | do better than mark him and turn him Ie have the butcher come up here in the morn- any power of pleading; they were not of the | in that way we ean e¢ onsider ing and kill that ib MAMET. | | stuil which can be swayed hitherand thither |)“ But can you do it all — J} by any rl il tricks. Yet noone doubts pubtfil smile on her face. A Seno with no hair on the top of his yelled B., getting exasper- | mea- anid there nd ask 1 the charge of conspiracy | your idiotic questions rse ‘Lean do it. tined certain | All you’s atch the animal, | = — = head can never (well, hardly ever) get intoa rt society, because he is sure to be black- the defendants were in. sot . there yet ren was not pr indubital of malfeasance in office, | threw him. and then clap the iron on him, ARG eae pee | and it’ ow go outside and make 3 which would seem to have required some | fire to heat the iron, while | hunt a rope || modification « uncompromising verdict, | + Are you all r my de sked B. of “not guilty.” Well, the trath was that the | his wife us she 1 stniling appearance in jury’s sympathies were aroused by the modes | the back yard a few minutes later, **4 dd by the /eh2 Alltights you just watch me, and you will see somet ing you never saw before. sof their | Whoa,whoa be kensduffer, used the verdict was ren: | ing th Now, ol dered. ‘The system of the prosecution was | ¢ to his wife, “for I'm going to « cution—it was persceution; and the | the répe right over his head ”—saying wh he threw the rope about twenty feet beyond and means of prosecution ade || Government, and out of the fulln sympathy for the not pros fecling that manhood must always experience for the under dog in the fight spoke out in the memorable verdict. It is true that efforts are being made to pen the ined fo ht on a rock exclaimed, no- sule lurking in the corner of his uth; * Pl do better this tim owing the rope, it fell. very a fence post three or four 3 Times, apparently re the purpose by the Government lawyers, is urging on that course with all the vi . how e gor of whieh it is * nly it would well could have we alet anes Walnebatsars: ee, iret lerrill & Ker to ha just as easy if he had n standing where |“ Mickey-—" Tammy Fagan, he eallded me a aucker, > eth > . the fence-post is. voor thing, how | an’ we sit tout, aud he licked me.” few months of the same kind of practice. If) ¢ taned he is. 5 ae Detter catch |. Mus. M—"Serces ye roight; didn’t [tell yet not to must be mo! dle to them to deplete 40% fright? | ; him this tim : Mickey.—" Then he ealted you an old bummer, an | | the treasury at the rate of 8450 perday than | After several ineffectual , ding | Ree ’ . it is to the public to sce them do so—when ! which Mr. B. got more and more excited and Mus. M.—** Go right back, sir, and lick ‘em!” | comicbooks.com