Why, Huggins, my boy . . .

Fred Barnard

11 August 1888

Wood Engraving

14.5 cm high by 11.1 cm wide

Harper's Weekly

Caption: Robinson the Replete to Huggins the Hungry: "Why, Huggins, my boy, you're looking quite thin; you should eat, sir, eat! Take plenty of quinine and iron pills. You've no notion what a glorious appetite they will give you."

Half of page 599 contains advertisements for patent medicines such as Allcock's Porous Plasters, Cuticura Remedies, Piso's Cure for Consumption, and The Best Tonic.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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