The Six Degrees of Genius

The Six Degrees of Genius. Signed “Kyd” (Joseph Clarke). Source: Fun 57-58 (29 March 1893): 136. Commonplace genius involves turning a poem into an advertisement for patent medicines, but far more mazing genius appears carving a chicken at someone else’s home without flipping a leg and gravy into a woman's lap. Click on image to enlarge it.

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