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SHOCKING RESULT OF WEARING INDIAN-RUBBER GOLOSHES ON THE SANDS

YOUNG JACK ROBINSON SEES WHAT HE IMAGINES TO BE THE IMPRESSION OF HIS DARLING'S FOOT - HE MENTALLY EJACULATES "BEETLE-CRUSHERS,* BY JOVE!" AND FLIES TO OTHER CLIMES

*A vulgar and disgusting expression, implying that a foot is big enough, and flat enough, to kill Black-beetles. The brutality of connecting in any way such words with the feminine Tootsicums, needs no comment.

Punch, October 4, 1856