The Opening Scene

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Fun 57-58 (1 February 1893): 47

Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust web version of a copy in the University of Minnesota library.

The four verses of the poem that accompanied this editorial cartoon end by remaking that “Indeed ye rarely could hope to see, / Such a brisk old sportsman of eighty-three” (52).

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