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.