At a Curragh Meeting. Source: Fun (1 July 1885): 12. Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Click on image to enlarge it.
Micky: — “Did ye iver see in her loife sich a parfect Cross Country Horse, Pat?”
Pat: — “Cross Country Horse, is it? Divil a bit do I know he’s a Country or a Town Horse, but he’s the Crossest Horse Oi iver set eyes on. Look at his Ears, now, and the Hind Leg of the Craythur”
The two men at left, one carrying a shillelagh, wear what cartoonists take to be the Irish national costume, and it often appears in depictions of Fenians. They contrast with both the man wearing a derby and boots who holds the horse’s reins and the soldier wearing a cap who is half out of the frame.
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