“Requesting an Explanation” (“Fun” 1878)

Requesting an Explanation

Gordon Thomson (fl. 1866-1886)

Wood engraving by the Dalziels

Fun (2 October 1878)

“Requesting an Explanation, or, the Monkey that ca-bullied the lion.”

British Lion to Czar’s pet Monkey: — So you’re at your tricks again, Sir, are you? What do you mean by it, and who put you up to it, eh?”

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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