To Bee, or Not to Bee. Fun (17 July 1878): 30. Signed with monogram in lower right corner (possibly John Gordon Thompson?). From an Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Princeton University Library. Click on image to enlarge it.
Mrs. A.: — “Now, Mrs. B., will you come and see our apiary?”
Mrs. B. (who has been putting it off all afternoon): — “Well, Mrs. A., the thing is, you know, I’m — I’m rather afraid of monkeys,”
Another Fun cartoon whose realistic detailed depictions of clothing and room furnishing seem more suited to the illustration of fiction than trying to bring off a joke based on wordplay.
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