The Complete Builder, — (By One Who Has Been a Tenant)

The Complete Builder, — (By One Who Has Been a Tenant) No. 9 The Drains and Dusthole Witticism

John Frank Sullivan

Fun (6 November 1873): 186

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The caption beneath the multi-panel cartoon contains the builder’s explanation of the ways in which he installed sewer drain pipes and the dust hole for garbage so that they ventilate into the breakfast room.

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