The successful claimant having made his best bow to Commissioner Punch, withdrew, whistling the national air of
“BRITONS, STRIKE HOME.”
A fellow named Peel, who has been for many years in the habit of exhibiting as a quack-doctor, next applied for liberty to vend his nostrums at the fair. On being questioned as to his qualifications, he shook his head gravely, and, without uttering a word, placed the following card in the hands of Punch.
TO THE GULLIBLE PUBLIC.
SIR RHUBARB PILL, M.D. and L.S.D.
Professor of Political Chemistry and Conservative Medicine to the