“Permissive Slaughter (Five thousand Shunting Accidents in five Years!. Charles Keene. Punch (29 March 1879): 135. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
First Shunter (with coupling-link, awaiting Engine backing.) “I saw poor Jack's Wife and Kids last Night, after the Funeral. Poor Things, what will be done for ’em!?”
Second Shunter (at Points). “Oh, the usual thing, I s’ppose– Company’s Blessin’, and a Charity Mangle!– Look out, Mate! She's backin’!”
Keene on Railway Travel, Taxis, and Omnibuses
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