Judge — October 17, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# "An Unusual Englishman" This satire depicts an English traveler encountering Native Americans near New York City. The Englishman expresses shock that Indigenous peoples still exist in the modern city, having assumed they were confined to remote territories. The joke mocks the Englishman's ignorance: he's astonished to learn Native Americans actually live and trade in the area, arriving by motorized canoes. His naive assumptions about their confinement to "the other side of the pond" and remote regions reveal his outdated, dismissive attitudes. The accompanying humor pieces ("More Human Nature," "Over the 'Phone," "Unpoetic," and "Grasping at a Straw") are brief comedic vignettes unrelated to the main story, typical of Judge magazine's format mixing longer satirical narratives with shorter jokes and observations about daily life.