Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

D M *

Subjects:

Transport, Steam-power, Amusement, Invention

    Shows a scene on a river where the 'steam-yacht' of Paterfamilias, laden with five other members of his family, has 'come to a stand-still, the fires having gone out'. A 'polite stranger' in a canoe sidles up to the steam-yacht and offers his cigar to Paterfamilias in order to rekindle the fire.