Awful result of giving a season ticket to your wife

John Leech

Wood Engraving

Mary. “Please, Sir, cook's gone out for a holiday; and Missus didn't say nothing about no dinner, Sir. Missus went early to the Exhibiiton with some lunch in a basket, and said she wouldn't be home until tea time.”

No. VIII in the Punch series, “Memorials of the Great Exhibition. — 1851.”

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