Shop-Girl. American wit and humor. Women clerks (Retail trade) -- Caricatures and cartoons. Flirting -- Caricatures and cartoons. Crinolines -- Caricatures and cartoons. Pride and vanity -- Caricatures and cartoons. The shop-girl walks holding up her skirt so that it reveals her crinoline. A man watches her and holds his hand to his face. Text: How gracelessly you move along / Like tun-dish upside down! / Pray, stay at home when streets are throng, / Lest some ungallant clown / Might tread upon that wondrous skirt / That sweeps from curb to wall, / And say: 'twas only right a flirt / From pride should have a fall. Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. [New York] : H. De Marsan, Publisher of songs and ballads, 54 Chatham Str. N.Y. [between 1840 and 1880?] Caricatures and cartoons. Comic valentines. digitool:6112 Comic Valentines, 9.45