Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons. The first story mocks rural social pretension: a cow from Deacon Miller's pasture breaks through a fence, enters the narrator's house, inspects pictures and checks its horns in a mirror—behaving with absurd politeness—then leaves a calling card before departing. The joke satirizes the Deacon for raising overly "lady-like" cattle, implying excessive refinement is ridiculous even in livestock. The second story is a poker-game anecdote involving Canadian Englishmen using unfamiliar currency terminology ("pounds" for five-dollar bills), which confuses an intoxicated bootlegger. He raises their bet by claiming "three tons," then takes the pot. The humor derives from Prohibition-era bootlegging and linguistic confusion between American and Canadian speakers. Both pieces target rural/frontier manners and culture.