“Nani, go into the entryway with that laundry, and if a collector comes to us, tell him we’ve got smallpox.”
(Humoristické listy, Prague, 1880)

“Nani, go into the entryway with that laundry, and if a collector comes to us, tell him we’ve got smallpox.”
(Humoristické listy, Prague, 1880)

During his microscopic studies Dr. Zebulon Tallérossy renders which princely encounters will become the… eastern plague? (A noble landowner, Tallérossy was the humorous literary invention of Mór Jókai. Clearly I will need to parse this image further…)
(Az Üstökös, Budapest, 1880) (Cf. this 1873 “letter” of Tallérossy.)
