A Holiday Task. Engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, engravers. “FSW” at lower right. Source: Fun. (30 May 1868): 131. Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Click on image to enlarge it.
Old Gardener: — “Well, Master Johnnie, and what are you doing?”
Johnnie: — “Why, you see, Martin, Pa said last night that Latin and Greek are dead languages — so I’m going to bury them.”
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