Slightly Irish. Source: Fun (20 August 1864): 228. Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Despite the attempt to reproduce an Irish speaker, the cartoon seems more about mothers of twins than any particular ethnicity. — George P. Landow. Click on image to enlarge it.
Irish Mother.: — “Halaf an hounce more, plase, Miss.”
Young Party: — “What, more snuff, Mts. O”Flanathy?”
Irish Mother.: — “Why, me dare, ye doan’t think an hounce a day too much fur the mother o’ twins!”
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