Consoling

Consoling

Engraving

Passenger: —“What time does the Next Train reach London?”

Porter: —“Five o’clock, Sir.”

Passenger: —“And it’s Three now; and this place is eighty Miles from Town. It must be an Express”

Porter: —“Yes Sir.”

Passenger: —“That’s jolly. I’m glad I’m in time to catch it”

Porter: —“Beg parding Sir; it don’t stop here”

Fun (2 December 1885): 243

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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