Novel Application
Fun 23 (22 March 1873): 127
Visitor: —“Can I see Dr. Jones?”
Servant: — “No, Sir — he's not at home, Sir!”
Visitor: —“Could I see his —er —deputy?”
Servant: — “Please, Sir, you’d better wait until Master comes home, as I don’t know where he puts it, and he don’t like his things fiddled with!”
Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.