Life, 1893-08-17 · page 3 of 20
Life — August 17, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page contains two distinct pieces: 1. **"His Last Experience"** (lower left): A brief comedic dialogue between "Mr. Young Pop," an older man, and "Mickey Flaherty" and "Tommy Traddles." The humor involves Mr. Pop's attempted cockfighting—he picked a "respectable looking woman" to fight his rooster, only to have her thoroughly beat him. It's a straightforward slapstick joke about mistaken identity and cockfighting culture. 2. **"The Goblin Love Affair"** (right): A whimsical illustrated poem by R.W. Bergengren about two goblins who court a fairy maid. Their rivalry attracts a jealous "green-eyed monster," leading to a duel where the fairy ultimately marries someone else. This is purely imaginative fantasy literature, not political satire. Neither piece appears to reference contemporary politics or events.
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L WO goblins loved a fairy maid And, every Sunday night, They both would hasten to her home And court with all their might. Mu. Her home it was a lily pad Upon a swampy lake. Upon its broad verandah leaves A spider there did make A hammock of an airy web; And on this breezy thing ‘The three would sit till twelve p.m. And spoon like anything. Mm. But this could not for long endure; ‘The green-eyed monster came, Stole in the goblins little breasts, And set their hearts aflame. And so, at last, one moony night, ‘They quarrelled and they swore,— Then challenged, tho’ the fairy maid Did many tearlets pour. Ww. ‘They met down ‘mid the marshy reeds On a little sixsinch plain; HI9: LAST: EXPERIENCE. With blades of grass they fought it out R. YOUNG POP: I'll be cook myself, my dear ‘And fell: in, deadly’ pata: M . NG POP: | sooke :myself,my dears The moon looked down in sad surprise, but d— me if I'll set foot in an intelligence office Upon the lovers dead; again, I picked out the most respectable looking woman in The fairy wept a week or two the room, and stepping up to her said: “Can you fill the And then got married. 2. W, Be position of cook?" She looked like our bantam fighting- cock as she replied: “Iam ¢ryzng to fill that of our coachman. I think you would suit admirably.” vengren ss ULLO, old man; where are you living now?” “ Esk-esk-esk-es! chenectady.” ng sk-esk-esk—confound it! why didn’t you ask me where we both lived } ICKEY FLAHERT Oi'll be afther tellin’ There is wan thing, begorra, " thot is, no wan in the wide wurruld can accuse me av concaling the fact thot Oi'm Oirish! TomMMY TRADDLES: How could you? comicbooks.com