Answers for our artist by George DuMaurier for Punch (3 March 1867): 98.
‘Middy Maloney, just you look at that Clock! Dudin;t I tell you last Night to Knock at my Door at Eight this Mornng?”
‘An' so you did, Sir, and I came to the Door at Eight sure enough, but I heard ye was making no Noise at all!”
“Well, why the Dickens didn't you Knock, and Wake me?”
“Sure, and because I feared you might be fast Asleep!”
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