Poor Buffer

“Poor Buffer!”

Charles Keene

1878

Wood engraving by Swain

Punch (19 October 1878)

“Danger Signals Up. Prospect of Collision at the Afghan Junction”

“’Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes / Between the pass and fell incensed points / Of mighty opposites” — Hamlet, Act. V.8

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