The Parliamentary Python mb-artistname Claude Dubosc 3rd October 1954

3rd October 1954

Freddie Dixon's Riley in action on the banking at Brooklands

Taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré

15th July 1986

A street seller who sells cooked apples and pears

The Parliamentary Python mb-artistname Claude Dubosc 3rd October 1954'The Parliamentary Python', 1862. The python at the Zoological Gardens in London had at this time laid some 100 eggs. Although she was incubating them, they failed to hatch as they had been left at one point whilst she went off to shed her skin. This incident provided a good opportunity for Punch to have a dig at the current political situation. The eggs in this case are all labelled with contemporary political issues. Lord Russell and the PM,