Judge, 1894-12-08 · page 25 of 60
Judge — December 8, 1894 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces from *Judge* magazine: **"His Regret Was for Another Cause"** (top): A newly arrived clergyman ("tenderfoot rector") misreads a gunslinger's regret. The cleric assumes the shooter feels guilty about wounding someone, but "Desperate Pete" actually regrets his *marksmanship*—failing to kill at close range. The joke mocks both the naive Eastern religious figure and the crude frontier culture's inverted morality. **"Social Agonies"** (middle): A sequence showing the embarrassment of accidentally placing a five-dollar gold piece in a church collection plate while believing it was a penny. The joke satirizes bourgeois social anxiety and the humiliation of public financial mistakes. **"The Rooster and the Shot"** (bottom): A visual gag showing a rooster's reaction to a rifle shot, depicted through sequential panels. The humor comes from the rooster's increasingly desperate attempts to maintain balance on a seesaw-like device as the explosion affects it. All three pieces reflect *Judge*'s typical late-19th/early-20th-century humor: mocking social pretensions, frontier crudeness, and physical comedy.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
=! HIS REGRET WAS FOR ANOTIIER CAUSE. TENDERFOOT RECTOR (who has arnved after the shooting)—" Ab, my friend, I can see from your countenance that you already regret shooting that poor fellow. Is it not so?” Drapstiot Pete" You are dead right, stranger. What'll the boys say when they hear I failed to kill my man at thirty feet?” 1. Rooster —** Ah, that looks like some- thing to eat . SOCIAL. AGONIES. That plegsant monient when you find you have placed a five-dollar gold-piece in the contribution- plate under the impression that it was a cent, THE ROOSTER AND THE SHOT. comicbooks.com