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This page contains three satirical pieces from the American humor magazine *Judge*: **"At Our Boarding-House"** depicts a morality lecture where landlady Miss Simper and others scold Mr. Jugerson for returning late, drinking, and general dissipation. The satire targets Victorian hypocrisy: the ladies deliver stern sermons about virtue while Jugerson deflects with charm, and young Slasher admires his rakish behavior—suggesting the reprimand rings hollow. **"A Liberal Construction"** (center illustration) shows a husband returning to find his wife at the beach with two young women, inventing an excuse about needing to go downtown. The joke plays on marital deception and the husband's credulous acceptance. **"A Summer Snap"** describes a lithograph in a barroom depicting scenery with an empty audience—satirizing either failed entertainment or artistic pretension. The page also includes a brief item about "Ox John Davis," jailed repeatedly for harassing young women by claiming to marry them, and mentions someone receiving $100,000 from Amasa Stone's will. The overall tone mocks Victorian morality, marital discord, and social pretense.

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