A Comic History of the United States

by Livingston Hopkins

Here we see him handing the relic down to posterity.

In after years posterity handed it over to an obnoxious female relative, who irreverently used it as a candlestick.

On one occasion obnoxious female relative imprudently went to sleep, allowing the candle to burn low in its socket.

Need we say that posterity’s obnoxious female relative got what she had often given him,—a severe blowing up?

CHAPTER XXV.

THIS HISTORY DABBLES IN POLITICS MUCH AGAINST ITS WISHES—PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS—A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS AND PRESIDENTS—“LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US.”