Judge, 1902-01-18 · page 10 of 16
Judge — January 18, 1902 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct cartoons satirizing late 19th-century American life: **"In Topsy-Turvy Land"**: A tall-tale hunting story where a marksman claims one bullet killed a goose, fox, and bluefish simultaneously through improbable circumstance. The humor lies in the exaggerated frontier yarn—a common American folk narrative being gently mocked. **"Captured by the Pie-Rates"**: A domestic scene showing someone (appears to be a child or servant) with pie, likely satirizing petty domestic "crimes" or mischief. **"A Regular Tammany Machine"**: The most politically significant cartoon. It depicts a machine labeled with patent dates (1870, 1880, 1890), with two figures operating it. This directly mocks **Tammany Hall**, the Democratic political machine controlling New York City politics through corruption and patronage. The joke: Tammany functions like a mechanical device, endlessly recycling the same corrupt practices across decades—a scathing critique of urban political corruption and the "machine" keeping itself in power.
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ders gunnin’ with thet old muzzle-loader er mine. I fooled ‘round all day, till 1 had only one charge of powder left. Birds had been comin’ ‘long, one in a flock and now and then tew lone ones, and all of ‘em out er range, and I didn’t git a bird. [was kinder discour- aged; hadn't had a good shot all day. But jest as I was gittin’ out of the stand [ heard a goose hollerin’, and I crouched down quick, | can tell yer, and purty soon he landed plump down in the slough-hole in front of me, where my decoys was. I was jest tu the south of the deacon’s medder—you fellers remember how the marsh there is very narrer and runs right clus . up to the beach—and my stand was jest abreast of thet low place on the beach they call the blow-hole, Wa-al, | moved ‘round keerful and got a bead on the old goose, when he must have smelt me, for jest as E was goin’ tu let him hev it he begun swimmin’ away from me. [ didn’t want tu lose him, so T begun to whistle him back, and, if you'll believe me, as L was a-sit- CAPTURED “BY THE PIERATES’ tin’ there, what should I see comin’ up by the blow-hole but a red fox. Boys, I'd hey given my bull farm for another charge of powder and shot IN TOPSY-TURVY LAND. Ware ean ny maa Bs get HAH) ip, 7, this time had circled round and begun ‘ZZ Wi ia : ~ \ tu come towards me agin, and the fox A REMARKABLE SHOT. WAT) was a-standin’ still, Gradually. the (4 LJELLO, Ike!" said Perkins, as “d i old yoose was gittin® in line with that individual walked Ds OU IIN (i Le thet fox. «By thunder !''s 1, ‘if into the store. “ How ‘d you a Di: ) I can git ‘em ina line there's make out gunnin‘ to-day j Wy isa aps \ a chance of gittin’ ‘em both.’ Tole’ble, jest tole’ble; li MY, p In another minute they that’s all. [got four ly g y- was right in line and 1 black ducks, six broad thet minute, | guess. The goose by i, My \\ ) , ‘ 2 2 let ‘em hev it, Jest as 1 BIL and len erate / Hy INS 1 fired, a bluefish jumped AA “T must say thet’s out of the water from a Xs 5 yy 4 A pretty good shootin’ fer AVY mi iy chool on ‘em that was one day,” said Perkins. iG AS : bait inshore. I Twas putty fair; yp ON We but I should have got S g through the head, lamed more yet if my shells < aN en the fox so he couldn't hadn't gin out. he . A run,and killed thet blue- © Thet so 2” said the hig? RE fish so he drifted ashor constable, «'Twa and I got the hull three. hard luck and. ‘mi + Boys,” said Perkins me oo" one day ‘bout four year ago, when t went down tu the med- shot the goose plum ome solemnly, “if you'll step He WAS BADLY STUCK intu ihe i rE room 11 Canto—"* It's a great wonder to me why people don’t keep their pin-cushions tied up.” Sevup ie cleet ——\ A REGULAR TAMMANY MACHINE. hat koind av a machine is thot? It sez ‘Pat. 1870, Pat. 1880, Pat. 1690, Pat.’""—— Begobs! that must be a political machine. comicbooks.com