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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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