The Monkey Cage

This is from Punchinello, a nineteenth-century American spinoff of Punch.

If the text is too small for you to read, here’s what it says:
Lecturer. “There is a cumulative approximativeness, so to speak, a period when the recalcitrant corpuscles begin to” –
Stenographer. “Con-found the fellow ! I knew he’d break my pencil with his infernal jaw-smashers!”

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