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# Political Cartoons from Judge Magazine (Page 132) This page contains several satirical sketches typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"A Nineteenth-Century Waterloo"** mocks an elderly Civil War veteran ("Old Ben Blowers") bragging that he never retreated at Cemetery Hill, presenting false bravado about wartime courage. **"Making It a Sure Thing"** satirizes a groom reassuring his bride of devotion—the joke being her cynical confidence stems solely from her father placing money in her name, reducing marital devotion to financial security. **"No Bachelor Expenses"** jokes about a man forced to vacation with his wife at the seaside rather than afford staying in town alone, inverting typical expectations about marriage expenses. **"Directions Followed"** presents Irish domestic humor: a maid meticulously follows her mistress's literal instructions to scrub eggshells with sand-soap, highlighting immigrant servants' supposed literal-mindedness. **"Necessary Chevaux-de-Frise"** uses dialect humor between Black characters debating barbed wire on a fence to keep out livestock and people, relying on period racial caricature stereotypes.
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FARa-anp—"* Wuz ye ever in a retreat 7" Ben BLowers (the old vet)—"* Retreat! r-e-t-re-a-t! t Cemetery hill we got thet order, but our blud wuz up an’ we charged instid, No, sir-r! ‘Old Ben Blowers don't know w'ot the word retreat means,” (Swish !) MAKING IT A SURE THING, Tuy. cous You know zat I vill be as devoted after our mar riage as before, don't you, dearest 7" Se —" Of course! Didn't papa put all the money in my name?” NO BACHELOR EXPENSES. Howdo— So you went with Mrs. Jipson to the seaside, after all, this year, did you?” Jipson (with a sigh)—" Yes. You see times were so awfully hard I couldn't afford to stay in town,” DIRECTIONS FOLLOWED. Mistress —“ Maggie, | wish you would wash eggs carefully before breaking them in the cake. 1 always keep the shells to clear the coffee with.” Maggie —* Shure, mum, an’ ye towld me thot same yisterday, It’s not mesilf that’s fergettin’, an’ here they all are, to dry on the rack, scrubbed inside an’ out wid the sand-soap an’ as dry as the flat o” yer hand, mum !” One more victim of the Emerald isle is trying to pluck up courage and try again. “Txgntons a f poutae flal” + Lo, (|) NECESSARY CHEVAUX-DE- FRISE. BLACKVILLE CAPTAIN (torathfully)—"* See heah, yo’, ! * yo" i yo" ? , Per pr endiee Gorath lly) —"* See heah, yo", Jackson! whad fo' yo’ put up dat barb wiah on yo'r fence? We doan’ propose toe lose a dollah on MR. JACKSON —"" Neider does I intend toe lose any mo’ dollahs on de fow! to : ni yo" i a semen ee ee y mo’ dollahs on de fowls dat goes out o' mah hen-yahd. Ef yo! niggahs want yo' ball, kim round an’ hab comicbooks.com