Judge, 1895-07-13 · page 5 of 16
Judge — July 13, 1895 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains six separate comic sketches mocking working-class and marginalized figures—typical of Judge's satirical approach. **"He Would Ride Accordingly"** ridicules Irish immigrants, shown through thick dialect mocking a horse-seller. **"Le Miserable"** parodies melodramatic courtroom scenes, where a prisoner's absurd claim of being orphaned at "seventy" yet being "twenty" exposes logical inconsistency—likely satirizing both sentimental criminal defenses and judicial gullibility. **"Shocked"** features two tramps (labeled "Weary Ives" and "Dusty Rhoades") in crude dialect, joking that a Philadelphia cop fainted rather than arrest someone—mocking both vagrants and urban police. The remaining sketches—card games, a boat scene—use similar ethnic caricature and lower-class stereotypes. The overall tone reflects late-19th/early-20th-century American humor: heavily reliant on racial/ethnic mockery, immigrant dialects rendered as illiterate, and poverty portrayed as comical rather than sympathetic.
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SHOCKED. aa Weary Ives—"'I once ast a cop ter run me in an’ he fainted HE WOULD RIDE ACCORDINGLY. dead away.” Ikny (who has been asked by Smith to ride the horse up and down to show it off p—"* Say, Dusty Ruopes—"* Where wuz dat?” meester, are you puying or selling ?” Weary Ives—" Philadelphia.” ~ ‘ : THE NEW DESIG- LE MISERABLE, a ) = NATION. fee y 4 F SSYVHERE_ are you prisoner anything to say ah. Se (oar ie Mis Gelease? ; By f “I'm from the Nut- Prisoner —"\t you & y Y. 4 i nap aaa please, your honor, I was A ro Rar eet left an orphan at an early f ‘ Lf pre operate age and had no education. = i ; 3 to speak of. My mother } yy) y) dll died as far back as ‘sev- f i ‘a ; ; T 1S far more neces- enty.” 3H) | Vy) s sary to make allow- Judge" Your io: : ance for the experience of ther died in ‘seventy, and . age than for the inexperi- you said you were twen- : ence of youth, ty?" Prisoner —*Yout honor is tight. Your honor may have guessed it—I was a posthumous child.” AMV. EK CLUS li fit Ha ae A MISTAKE THAT WAS NOT RECTIFIED. AN ACCOMMODATING BOAT, Mr. NewrLays—"' Dere goes mah las’ quartah, so I has toe call. ALcy—"I've got evwything Whad yo" got?” weady. Now I leave it to you to say Mk. JACKSON (triumphantly) —" Fo! little two-spots.” which way we shall go—up or down?" Mr. Newetays (disgustedly)—"* Jes’ mah dog-gone luck. All | has CuouLy—"* We-ell, foah my part am fo’ one-spots, Taik de coin, Mistah Jackson ; dis am mah off night." I'd just as leave — —o up!"