Judge — June 8, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This two-panel rural comedy depicts a farmer discovering his hired hand has carelessly placed the family's best flower pot in the vegetable garden. The farmer's outrage at this stupidity sets up the punchline: when he attempts to retrieve it, the pot has become home to rabbits, which have multiplied inside it ("It's livin'!"). The humor relies on slapstick—the farmer's shocked reaction ("THEN HE DID A FLIP-FLAP") to discovering living rabbits. The satire targets rural laborers' incompetence and the absurd consequences of their carelessness, while also playing on period audiences' enjoyment of physical comedy and animal-based humor. The "Farmer Nuerstte" byline suggests a rural dialect character, typical of early 20th-century American comic conventions that often mocked rural speech and sensibilities for urban magazine readers.