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# Life Magazine, Volume XVI, Number 398 - Analysis This page contains four satirical sketches with accompanying jokes typical of Life's humor: 1. **"Possibly"**: Opens with commentary on a Metropolitan Museum trustee who is "a poet" concerned with art appreciation, followed by a couplet mocking working-class disinterest in art. 2. **"A Proposal"**: Jokes about a man (Mr. G. Hockensmith Dumley) proposing burial arrangements to Miss Evangeline. 3. **"Why Miss Le Grande Decided Not to Bathe"**: A woman in a bathing facility declines to use changing rooms numbered 5-6, presumably due to modesty or privacy concerns—typical Victorian-era humor about women's bathing etiquette. 4. **"An Easy Capture"**: A boatman humorously explains how he caught someone by asking them to retrieve his severed tail. 5. **"Of Worldwide Fame"**: A brief joke about mistaken identity between a Native African and someone named McGinty.
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VOLUME XVI. ° L| F E ° NUMBER 398. ot poe A PROPOSAL. Mr. G. Hackensack Dumtey (who has long been waiting an opportunity, thinks his time has come at last): ER— Miss EVANCELINE—ER—UM—HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO RE BURIED IN OUR PLOT? Why Miss Le GRANDE DECIDED NOT TO BATHE. POSSIBLY. I" is said that one of the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum is something of a poet; nota frivolous poet who sings of Love and Nature, and subjects of like wickedness, but an earnest poet with a more serious object. The following exquisite couplet reveals the gentle beauties of a lofty soul whose ruling passion is to better the condition of his fellow creatures : A curse upon you, Workman ! There's evil in your heart If on the Sabbath day you wish To look on works of art. AN EASY CAPTURE. Boatswain: How b' VER KETCH HIM, BILL? Bill; Dips't Ketcn mim, HE WALKED RIGHT UP TO ME AN’ ASKED. ME HOW I GOT MY TAIL CUT OFF, OF WORLDWIDE FAME. NAtve (on South coast of Africa, to shipwrecked sailor) : Say, are you McGinty? comicbooks.com