Tuesday 24 May 2016

Punch Cartoon no. 2 (from 1906)



Vicar's Wife: Now that you can't get about, and are not
able to read, how do you manage to occupy the time?


Old Man: Well, Mum, sometimes I sits and thinks; and
                then again I just sits.



A 110 year old cartoon flags up the importance of literacy. The increasing number of illiterate and semi-illiterate children living in Austria today is causing much concern.



4 comments:

  1. I watch dust drift through this dingy air. Gravitee? _m

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  2. Fine. If you can count do you count the motes?

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    1. And I cant spell... gravity.
      __With some of my toes covered, I can only count to... ummm.

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