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Reversing the Proverb bald 'Commerce and Sea Power'

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'Commerce and Sea Power'

1st Lord Kinloss

Old Hummums Hotel

View of a building in Lombard Street

I tell you

Reversing the Proverb bald 'Commerce and Sea Power''Reversing the Proverb', 1864. The Oyster where it ought to be, And Shell and Shell the Lawyer's Fee. Here, the plaintiff whose case is settled is walking away with the oyster, and the lawyer and barrister get the shells. Punch makes the point that usually it was the other way round. This cartoon may be satirising the length of the average Chancery case during the mid Victorian period. Some of these cases might last for decades, and people joined in

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