“What the School Board Has to Put up with.” W. Reynolds. Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal. (20 June 1877): 93. Courtesy of the HathiTrust and the Harvard University Library. Click on image to enlarge it.

Here Is the Good Mother writing to ask the Master to excuse her Billy, who she thinks has lately over-taxed his Brain by his Studies. N.B. — She wants him at home to “fetch” Errands.

Billy with the over-taxed Brain fetching the errands aforesaid.

Bibliography

Scully, Richard. Eminent Victorian Cartoonists – Volume II: The Rivals of "Mr Punch." London: Political Cartoon Society, 2018 (esp. pp.52-92).


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