As we run we read
George Gatcombe
Fun (10 August 1887): 61
Signed lower left “Geo. G.”
Inquiring Little Girl: — “What book is that you’re reading, Auntie.”
Intelligent Auntie: — “Common Objects of the Sea-shore.”
I.L.G.: — “Why is it called that?”
I.A. (unthinkingly, and bored with questions): — “Because so many Low, Vulgar People come down to the Seaside here by these horrid Cheap Excursions.”
Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Click on image to enlarge it.