Out of it!.

Out of it!

John Tenniel

Swain, Engraver

1892

Wood engraving

Punch (16 July 1892)

(“And the subsequent Proceedings interested him no more”).

Newspaper-Boy. “'Ere y'are, Sir! Latest results of the poll [election], Sir!”

Rejected Candidate growls. “Oh! Go to the deuce!!”

This losing candidate is of course reading Punch.

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