Life — November 24, 1904 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Frogville Sketches: The Hold-Up of the Pooltown Mail This is a humorous anthropomorphic cartoon depicting frogs as characters in a Wild West scenario. The frogs are staging a hold-up of a mail delivery cart labeled "Frogville and Pooltown Mail." The scene parodies frontier bandits: armed frog bandits confront mail carriers, with one bandit prominently wearing a large hat. A birdhouse serves as a frontier structure in the background, and a bird on a post watches the action—establishing a whimsical animal-world setting. The satire appears to be gentle humor rather than sharp political commentary, playing on the contrast between dignified mail delivery and chaotic bandit activity. The "Frogville" setting suggests this is part of a serialized humorous feature about a fictional frog community and their everyday (if absurd) adventures.