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Pray tell me if you can, whatever was the use
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Title
Pray tell me if you can, whatever was the use
Publisher
[New York] : T.W. Strong, New-York.
Date
[1861-1865?]
Description
A goose wears a Union jacket, carries a rucksack, holds a gun, and smokes a small pipe.
Notes
Text: Pray tell me if you can, whatever was the use / Of your going for a soldier? Eh, you silly, green old goose; / You should have staid at home with your friends, my pretty creature / Instead of going 'mongst your foes, who'll kill and maybe eat yer. / With war's chances all against you, there's no telling how you'll die, / Things won't look so lovely, if, dear goose, you should hang high.
"519"
Genre
Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject
American wit and humor.
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format
TMP.objres.384.jpg
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier
Comic Valentines, 8.33
In Collections
Comic Valentine Collection
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