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Title You drink so much that it is plain
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A thin man in top hat with a dripping nose drinks from a teapot. On the left, two rows of casks containing liquour are smiling. One of the casks is labeled "Uncle Tom." On the right, a water pump is depicted with a mournful face, since the drunkard prefers liquor to water. The text suggests that no woman would take a proposal from him seriously, since he is unable to provide even for her basic needs.
Notes Text: You drink so much that it is plain / You must have water on the brain, / Dost think that any girl would jump / At offer coming from a Pump, / Or that thou ought thou man of water / To have a wife, who can't sup-porter.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Liquors -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Poverty -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 17.7