Superior London Lore

Superior London Lore

"Country Kate (looking at a ‘Black Maria’): — “Oh Ethel, look at that ’bus with a policeman driving!”

Ethel: — “Oh, I’ve often seen it. It the prisoner’s carriage: they go out for a drive in it when they have half-holiday!”

Wood engraving

Fun (17 May 1866): 218

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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