A Creditable View. Source: Fun (12 April 1876): 166. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library and the University of Minnesota. — Click on image to enlarge it.
McCrispin: — “Quite right to get a pair of shows, Molly, your feel ’ill lool illigant in leather!”
Molly: — “But, sire. I Can;t pay for them till Christmas!”
McC (after a pause): — “Troth, and it ’ud be a pitty to hide such a purty foot, acushla!”
This cartoon manages to combine two things for which the English mocked the Irish — their poverty (the woman cannot even afford shows) and a quick-thinking gift of gab from the shoemaker who quickly reverses his field when he realizes money is not immediately forthcoming. He’s not about to give credit. — George P. Landow.
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