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Illustrator: George Cruikshank
PAMPHLETS AND PARODIES ON POLITICAL SUBJECTS
With Numerous Wood Cuts, by Cruikshank
LONDON:
THE POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
"A straw--thrown up to show which way the wind blows."
WITH THIRTEEN CUTS
Fifty-first Edition
London:
ONE SHILLING.
Doctor Slop,
In Acknowledgment Of
Many Public Testimonials Of His Filial Gratitude;
And To The Nursery Of Children Six Feet High, His Readers,
For The Delight And Instruction Of Their Uninformed Minds
This Juvenile Publication
Is Affectionately Inscribed,
The Doctor's Political Godfather,
The Author.
THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
THIS IS
THE WEALTH
that lay In the House that Jack built.
Spawn'd in the muddy beds of Nile, came forth, Polluting Egypt: gardens, fields, and plains, Were cover'd with the pest;
The croaking nuisance lurk'd in every nook; Nor palaces, nor even chambers,'scap'd; And the land stank --so num'rous was the fry."
THESE ARE
THE VERMIN
That plunder the Wealth, That lay in the House,
That Jack built.
THIS IS
THE THING,
that in spite of new Acts, And attempts to restrain it,
by Soldiers or Tax,
That plunder the Wealth,
That lay in the House,
That Jack built.
THIS IS
THE PUBLIC INFORMER,
who
that, in spite of new Acts, And attempts to restrain it, by Soldiers or Tax,
Will poison the Vermin, that plunder the Wealth, That lay in the House, that Jack built.
THESE ARE
THE REASONS OF LAWLESS POWER, That back the Public Informer, who
Would put down the Thing,
that, in spite of new Acts,
And attempts to restrain it,
by Soldiers or Tax,
That plunder the W ealth,
That lay in the House,
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