"I am going to begin, Tom. Don't you wonder why I butter the inside of the basin?" said his busy little sister, "Eh, Tom?" -- illustration for "Martin Chuzzlewit"

"I am going to begin, Tom. Don't you wonder why I butter the inside of the basin?" said his busy little sister, "Eh, Tom?"

Fred Barnard

1870s

6.6 x 5 inches.

[Tom and Rath Pinch set up housekeeping]

Illustration for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, Household Edition, p. 147. The copy of The Dickens Souvenir Book from which these pictures were scanned is in the collection of the Main Library of The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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