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Title The Shirk.
Publisher [N.Y. : McLoughlin Bros.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A boy lies on his stomach with his heels in the air underneath a tree. The sun is high in the sky and a hoe is lying on the ground next to the boy, suggesting he is neglecting farming duties.
Notes Text: You are the biggest fraud on earth, / A lazy, loafing lout, / A big mistake was at your birth-- / Oh! That your ma was out! / Such shirks as you should be caught up, / And sent around the horn, / Or an inquest held on all of you, / Before you e’er were born-- / Oh! How we hope that some fine day, / You may dry up and blow away.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Laziness -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Young men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 16.11