Judge — December 22, 1900 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This six-panel comic strip depicts a child attempting to care for a potted plant labeled "RARE PLANT" while an antelope repeatedly interferes. The narrative shows the botanist's increasingly frantic efforts to protect the plant from the animal's destructive behavior—the antelope kicks it over, eats from it, and generally disrupts the gardening project across successive panels. The humor appears to rely on slapstick physical comedy: the contrast between the child's small, careful gestures and the antelope's chaotic disruption. The "rare plant" label suggests the joke may involve the incongruity of keeping exotic specimens in a backyard setting, complicated by an equally exotic animal visitor. Without additional context from Judge magazine's 1900 publication, the specific satirical target—if any—remains unclear.