Consulting and Insulting

Signed H.L.

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun (14 April 1880): 149

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First Miner: —“Fine Dawg, Bill; named ’im yet?”
Second d[itt]o: —“No, not yet, Jarge.”
First d[itt]o: —“What say to call ’im ‘Gladstone’?”
Second d[itt]o: —“Oh no, that would be an insult to the statesman.”
First d[itt]o: —“What say to call ’im ‘Beaconsfield’?”
Second d[itt]o: —“That would be an insult to the dawg.”

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