Punch,  31 (1856), 211.

We Live in Suspicious Times!

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Meteorology, Astronomy, Crime, Commerce


    Following reports of clerks embezzling their employer's money, anticipates the prosecution of the clerk of the weather (i.e. the imaginary functionary supposed to control the weather) for such crimes as 'skimming the Milky Way' and 'transferring some of the brightest stars from the firmament'.



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