Judge — November 12, 1898 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Top Cartoon ("Had Heard of the Proclamation"):** This depicts a farmer and gentleman discussing a turkey that has stopped eating before the holidays. The joke plays on the turkey's supposed awareness of its fate—it "heard" (understands instinctively) that Thanksgiving is coming and refuses food in protest. The humor derives from attributing human reasoning to the animal, satirizing both rural superstition and the darker reality of holiday meat procurement. **Bottom Strip ("Lazy Bill and the Luscious Apple; or, Won by Music"):** A six-panel sequence showing a man asleep under a tree, presumably "Lazy Bill." The narrative appears to involve music or sound somehow displacing or affecting the sleeping figure, though the exact satirical target remains unclear without additional context about who "Lazy Bill" references. Both pieces employ rural/folk character stereotypes common to late-19th-century American humor magazines.