Judge — February 1, 1896 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This appears to be a satirical cartoon sequence titled "He Lost Faith in the Wishbone," showing what looks like a scene involving two figures and a wishbone-pulling ritual. The OCR'd dialogue includes dialect speech ("yo"," "dat," "raidy"), suggesting the cartoon employs period racial stereotyping common to early Judge magazine content. The sequence appears to mock someone's loss of belief in the wishbone-pulling tradition—a folk superstition where two people pull a chicken wishbone apart, with the person getting the larger piece supposedly granted a wish. Without clearer context or visible captions identifying specific political figures, the exact satirical target remains unclear, though it likely comments on gullibility or superstition. The cartoon's humor relies on visual narrative across multiple panels showing the protagonist's disillusionment with this folk practice.